** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Triaged
** Package changed: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) => firefox (Ubuntu)
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Title:
Use liberation fonts in firefox by default for better website layout
Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Binary package hint: firefox
Hello,
with the fonts that are currently used by default in Firefox to render
websites (I guess DejaVu), the layout on some sites is a bit distorted, you can
see this in the screenshots below (taken on a fresh Jaunty installation).
The cause for this seems to be that these fonts are a bit bigger than the
default Microsoft fonts (Arial, Times New Roman, ...), on whose size some web
layouter obviously rely.
A possible workaround would be to use the Liberation Fonts for Firefox which
are metric compatible with the Microsoft ones:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts
I am doing this on my machine for some time now by selecting them manually in
"Edit -> Preferences -> Content -> Fonts & Colors -> Extended...", they look
very good.
The Liberations Fonts package seems to be in Main now (ttf-liberation).
Kind regards,
Jan
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