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Blurry fonts (light on dark text on firefox 4 for mac)

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I am making a website with light text on a dark background. Both Safari and Firefox 4 initially render the text very blurry, and far too 'bold' looking. (see example link)

However, I have found that I can fix this problem in Safari (and Chrome) by using -webkit-font-smoothing, which makes the text look just as I'd like. On FF4, however, the text remains very blurry, almost unreadable in some cases. Is there anything I can do?

[http://sound-guru.com/img/font-smooth.png Example image] I am making a website with light text on a dark background. Both Safari and Firefox 4 initially render the text very blurry, and far too 'bold' looking. (see example link) However, I have found that I can fix this problem in Safari (and Chrome) by using -webkit-font-smoothing, which makes the text look just as I'd like. On FF4, however, the text remains very blurry, almost unreadable in some cases. Is there anything I can do?

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