Firefox Fonts Hurts in Linux

Written on November 12th, 2008 by krannyone shout

Are you tired of the small fonts you have been lookin in firefox for months?Many of use the ctrl++ option to make it bigger…but it makes the webpage look ugly.Here is a complete solution to change that into clear and crisp fonts..(Tested in Ubuntu 8.04)

—>Install msttcorefonts , gsfonts , gsfonts-other and gsfonts-x11.

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts gsfonts gsfonts-other gsfonts-x11

goto System—>preferences–>appearance–>fonts
Change Everything to Verdana except the windows title font which u change to Verdana Bold
If u use LCD Select the Subpixel smoothing Option or else leave it to Monochrome

—>Goto details in the same window and Smoothing should be Subpixel and Hinting should be Full
—>Open Firefox–>edit—>preferences—>content
Under Fonts change it to times new roman and under advanced change the size to 12..
Close Firefox and restart the X-server for the settings to take effect..
U should Be done with

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