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I notice that the text on some web pages look bad when viewed in Chrome (16.0.912.77 m) while OK with Firefox (10.0). FWIW, I'm using the Windows versions of those applications, with default settings.

As an (ironic) example, www.google.com/webfonts.

Does someone know why that is, and if something can be done about it?

Thank you.

Edit: Another example:

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Edit: Here's how it looks in FireFox:

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Screen shots might be a better way of illustrating the problem. – ChrisF Feb 8 at 22:39
Sorry about that. Done. – OverTheRainbow Feb 8 at 22:47
It only occurs on some web pages. XPSP3, running the latest Chrome browser. The same page looks slick on Firefox. – OverTheRainbow Feb 9 at 0:05
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I added a screenshot as viewed in Firefox. It's easier to read. How can I get Chrome to render pages the same way? – OverTheRainbow Feb 9 at 1:11
I found most relevent links. google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/… lower DPI and zoom :-) and ClearType tuning, which can be done in XP. google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/… Other than that, just a bunch of people who realise how bad it is. Stupid things done to fix it on Web pages that just adds more junk on web pages, and CCS sheets for default fonts only. The one thing I did not see yet is the method of render?, because I might wonder if changes to GPU settings would change anything, If they use gpu – Psycogeek Feb 9 at 2:01
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