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Firefox 3 anti-aliasing glitch

Firefox 3 anti-aliasing glitch by wilsonminer.
This is what text looks like in Firefox 3 Mac with any value of the CSS opacity property set on it. It only crops up when you're using any of the system-wide anti-aliasing settings optimized for LCDs, which use sub-pixel anti-aliasing. I suspect it's a conflict between the anti-aliasing applied by the Cairo graphics engine and the system, but it's definitely a bug and it's definitely annoying.

I'll buy a pizza for the first person who finds a way to turn off sub-pixel AA in Firefox 3, like Shaun's text-shadow trick for Safari

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Jeff Croft  Pro User  says:

Is this the same thing Drew is talking about?

allinthehead.com/retro/328/when-bugs-collide- fixing-text-...
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

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wilsonminer  Pro User  says:

Nope, that's a separate problem with Firefox 2. Weirdly, the fix for that (setting opacity on everything) is exactly what causes this problem in Firefox 3.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

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Martin Berglund  Pro User  says:

What site is the screenshot from?
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

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donederdiddat says:

Happens in Firefox 3.5 for Windows as well. I'm very frustrated with it myself!
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

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