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Are Your FireFox 3 Fonts Ugly in Ubuntu Hardy?

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!

Comments

  1. Tobias says:

    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.

  2. @Tobias

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

  3. mbazs says:

    Great! Works!!!

  4. Sergi says:

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

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

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