Comments on: Why Is Internet Explorer’s Font Rendering So Much Better Than Firefox and Opera?

By: V

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:11:28 +0000

Thanks, it helped very much I’m glad to find such information easy. Thank you again!

By: Ardalan

Ardalan — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:04:38 +0000

Thanks a lot man
very very very helpful
good luck

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:53:31 +0000

I love Firefox but hated the text rendering, your tip has changed all that, now the text looks smooth and easily readable. I looked for ages trying to find a solution and yours proved to be the simplest and only effective solution. Thanks for a great tip!

By: thank

thank — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:35:46 +0000

very helpful thank.

By: sdf

sdf — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:03:29 +0000

All of those look like trash. Safari has the best font rendering on Windows, though it looks pretty different than ClearType (and people complained about it being different…)

By: linksabc.com

linksabc.com — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:33:43 +0000

thanks a lot! man , I’m looking for something for this problem for a long time ,now it’s resolved ,thanks!

By: Goran

Goran — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:30:30 +0000

Thank you so much! It would never comes on my mind to try to find solution in that way.

By: AdepT

AdepT — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:37:23 +0000

Oh dear God !!!
Many Thanks , You are a life savior

By: pippin

pippin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:01:55 +0000

I tend to agree with the author, but also wanted to point out that some fonts look better with anti-aliasing turned on and some don’t.

Verdana, is a font commonly used on the web which was specifically designed to be easier to read on screen. In my opinion with small size type (11px) is looks better with anti-aliasing turned off.

Ironically Verdana was created by Microsoft!
Check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdana

In general font size makes a huge difference. Larger sizes tend to look better with anti-aliasing on and small sizes look worse.

Hopefully some day we’ll be able to selectively turn antialiasing on or off for differnt fonts in a browser. It’s been in Photoshop for years.

By: Adam Quiller

Adam Quiller — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:11:33 +0000

I am a new user to Firefox and, yes, I did not think it looked as good as Internet Explorer. With your tweak it now does.

Magic!

Thanks. You are indeed the man!