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Text rendering is faulty- FF 29.0.1 Win7 64

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Text appears blocky and multicolored, making it hard to read.

Text appears blocky and multicolored, making it hard to read.

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cor-el
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Try to create a new Boolean pref on the about:config page via the right-click context menu with the name layout.paint_rects_separately and set the value to true and leave hardware acceleration enabled.

See comment 414 in bug 812695:

That way you still have the benefit from hardware acceleration, but may not suffer from rendering issues.

If this didn't help then try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox (you need to close and restart Firefox).

  • Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"