{"id":72,"date":"2009-04-11T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2009-04-11T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T08:40:00","slug":"improving-firefoxs-font-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/11\/improving-firefoxs-font-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving Firefox’s font display"},"content":{"rendered":"

As most of you know I am a huge Firefox fan, primarily because of the extnsions;
things I could not<\/strong> do without, like ‘Better Gmail, DownloadHelper and Stop Autoplay.
All of which I have discussed in previous posts.
But one thing I wish Firefox did was ‘render\/display’ pages as nicely as IE 7.
Because, with IE and XP\/Vista using ‘ClearType’ and the ‘Aero’ interface pages just look great and I can read them very easily with my old eyes.
Here is a tweak I have used to enable much better font selections (for me anyways) in Firefox.
oops…
Looks like the folks at life hacker have already done a great tutorial (better than mine) on it so go here:
http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5197352\/force-firefox-to-use-windows-vista-cleartype-fonts<\/a><\/p>\n

Please note that before you change ANYTHING take COMPLETE and thorough notes of your settings – ALL of them, in all tabs, in case you don’t like what this does!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As most of you know I am a huge Firefox fan, primarily because of the extnsions;things I could not do without, like ‘Better Gmail, DownloadHelper and Stop Autoplay.All of which I have discussed in previous posts.But one thing I wish Firefox did was ‘render\/display’ pages as nicely as IE 7.Because, with IE and XP\/Vista using … Continue reading “Improving Firefox’s font display”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,13,19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firefox","category-tech-tips","category-tweaks","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t