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Are Your FireFox 3 Fonts Ugly in Ubuntu Hardy?

Posted by: ThinkingSerious
in FireFox 3, Ubuntu

Mine were! It looked like some kind of serif font was being substituted for fonts that were sans-serif under Windows. We’ll the fix is very simple. I hope this helps someone.

  1. Close your browser.
  2. Open a terminal.
  3. sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
  4. Open your browser.
  5. You should be good to go. Enjoy!
"Are Your FireFox 3 Fonts Ugly in Ubuntu Hardy?" was posted by ThinkingSerious and received 5 users commented
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Tobias said,         
July 1 2008

Unfortunately, this won’t fix anything. Font rendering is broken in Firefox 3 – even if the Microsoft fonts are installed correctly. It seems to be a Firefox 3 problem, as these problems also exist on Ubuntu Gutsy.

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ThinkingSerious said,         
July 1 2008

@Tobias

There was a significant difference on both of my machines after running this command.

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mbazs said,         
July 26 2008

Great! Works!!!

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Sergi said,         
July 30 2008

This solution worked perfectly for me (Ubuntu Hardy and FF3). Thanks

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TickerWatcher said,         
February 7 2010

this was great…ran the code and couldn’t be happier

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