I can confirm that on Ubuntu 10.10 this problem still exists. The easiest way to observe it is to open a page that uses Helvetica in Firefox 4. Unlinking 30-metric-aliases.conf fixes the problem so I guess this is still exactly the same issue.
** Changed in: fontconfig (Ubuntu) Status: Expired => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203824 Title: bad default aliasing for 'arial' -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs