{"id":1535,"date":"2011-07-08T14:22:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T13:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2011-07-08T15:23:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T14:23:05","slug":"firefox-5-very-fast-but-unusable-on-mac-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/08\/firefox-5-very-fast-but-unusable-on-mac-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 5: Very fast, but unusable on Mac OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla has &#8220;pulled a Microsoft&#8221; and put in place a font renderer that makes all text horrible on anything except low-quality monitors. On Windows, you have to &#8220;disable hardware acceleration&#8221; in the preferences menu (what? you get to choose &#8220;slow browser&#8221; or &#8220;readable fonts&#8221;? That sucks).<\/p>\n<p>On OS X &#8230; you&#8217;re just screwed. Everything is blurry. Some idiot decided to give the world a migraine&#8230; The only add-ons I&#8217;ve found that let you disable this madness are Windows-only.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll update this post if I find a solution.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: using TinkerTool, I&#8217;ve been able to globally change some of the OS X fonts, but not the ones that Firefox 5 is using. Still blurry. c.f. Finder, where I can change half the fonts (the time font on the right is Gill Sans, looks great; the font on left is the crappy Apple font that seems unchangeable)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2011-07-08-at-15.19.22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2011-07-08-at-15.19.22.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-07-08 at 15.19.22\" width=\"452\" height=\"174\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2011-07-08-at-15.19.22.png 452w, https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2011-07-08-at-15.19.22-150x57.png 150w, https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2011-07-08-at-15.19.22-300x115.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla has &#8220;pulled a Microsoft&#8221; and put in place a font renderer that makes all text horrible on anything except low-quality monitors. On Windows, you have to &#8220;disable hardware acceleration&#8221; in the preferences menu (what? you get to choose &#8220;slow browser&#8221; or &#8220;readable fonts&#8221;? That sucks). On OS X &#8230; you&#8217;re just screwed. Everything is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}