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.
Close your browser.
Open a terminal.
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
Open your browser.
You should be good to go. Enjoy!
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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.
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.
July 1 2008
@Tobias
There was a significant difference on both of my machines after running this command.
July 26 2008
Great! Works!!!
July 30 2008
This solution worked perfectly for me (Ubuntu Hardy and FF3). Thanks