Ubuntu – Firefox fonts unreadable, especially for Google sites

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for some sites, Firefox renders the fonts unreadable. I've noticed this especially for the Google sites. When I uncheck the Firefox option "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above", everything is readable again, but "beautiful" is it not.

I'm attaching two pictures, one with the Youtube menu and one with the pulldown menu of Google Maps.

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Is there any way to go around this problem and show the original fonts of the website (so not by overwritting them) being shown correctly?

Best Answer

I found a solution to my problem, documented here: 14.04 Thinkpad T450: Text getting messed up on large screens

Specifically:

Put the following:

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
   Driver      "intel"
   Option      "AccelMethod"  "uxa"
EndSection

in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf, create the directory /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ if it does not exist. This must be done as root:

$ sudo mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
$ sudo cp  20-intel.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

Assuming you created the file 20-intel.conf in the local directory.

BTW, here's the source for the solution: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_graphics#SNA_issues

The problem with disabling SNA is that some graphic-intensive applications like a video Google Hangout are extremely slow.

The other workaround is documented in post #100 on https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1432194 - it worked allright on my 14.04.

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