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AA makes everything blurry, and without hinting, some poorly designed fonts(which are widespread) make my eyes bleed. Is there no way to get the best of o

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  • what's your operating system?
    – paa
    Mar 10, 2013 at 22:01
  • Windows 7, 64-bit.
    – Avery3R
    Mar 10, 2013 at 22:06

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Reset to default
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Go to about:config
Find the preference gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode
Change its value (probably -1) to 1

1 turns anti-aliasing off.
You might also want to try 2 and 3.

4 and 5 are not your friends, they involve anti-aliasing.

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  • That turns off both anti-aliasing, and font-hinting. I would like font-hinting to stay enabled.
    – Avery3R
    Mar 10, 2013 at 22:32
  • I didn't see this option under Firefox 36.0.1
    – Trevor Hickey
    Mar 13, 2015 at 23:25
  • @TrevorHickey it's a Windows-only preference. Is that your OS?
    – paa
    Mar 14, 2015 at 11:58
  • @paa Ubuntu. I was able to successfully turned off antaliasing with a .fonts.config file.
    – Trevor Hickey
    Mar 16, 2015 at 1:49
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    Do you know how to turn off antialiasing in Firefox for Mac?
    – Kwadz
    Nov 17, 2017 at 9:50

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