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Cyrillic font in google and some other sites like Wikipedia are looking different in Win XP and Win 7

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sunama
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Good day, gents. Yesterday I installed 4 beta on my desktop after succesfull using it on laptop. But when i opened google (and some other sites) i found that fonts are looking different with the same settings. Here screens:

http://i52.tinypic.com/33x78eb.jpg - Laptop, Win XP Professional SP3 (Looks good)

http://i56.tinypic.com/5nw47l.jpg - Desktop, Win 7 Ultimate (Looks terrible, those Times New Roman makes me mad)

I tried reinstall, clearing cashe. In Firefox 3.6.9 on Desktop fonts was normal.

How to resolve this ? Thanks and sorry for my English.

Good day, gents. Yesterday I installed 4 beta on my desktop after succesfull using it on laptop. But when i opened google (and some other sites) i found that fonts are looking different with the same settings. Here screens: http://i52.tinypic.com/33x78eb.jpg - Laptop, Win XP Professional SP3 (Looks good) http://i56.tinypic.com/5nw47l.jpg - Desktop, Win 7 Ultimate (Looks terrible, those Times New Roman makes me mad) I tried reinstall, clearing cashe. In Firefox 3.6.9 on Desktop fonts was normal. How to resolve this ? Thanks and sorry for my English.

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cor-el
cor-el
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Disable (remove the check-mark) in
Tools > Options > Advanced : General: Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"

See also this mozillaZine Forums threwad. Direct2D & DirectWrite HW Acceleration For Minefield - Info: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1775755

sunama
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Thank you! Hardware acceleration check-mark helped! Now i see that most of Arial-fonts become bold :) I think i there was such topic is mozilla support, i will try to search it. P.S. Great thanks for helping, Firefox is the best! 8-)

cor-el
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You're welcome

I assume that you mean: Some text shows up bold after upgrade

But that article hasn't been updated to cover D2D issues on Firefox 4.0