Why does Paizo website text appear poorly in Firefox?

[Kor - Orc Scrollkeeper]

Although I prefer Firefox as a browser, I find that the text appearance on this site is just too pixely (is that a word?).

Here is a sample:
http://www.d20.ca/ieandff.jpg

Top one is from Firefox and bottom one is from Internet Explorer.

Can anyone offer some insight as to why they appear so differently? (I do have "Allow pages to choose their own fonts" enabled on Firefox.)

[Dennis Baker]

I run FF on Linux and it looks fine, it uses Verdana which is a very MS friendly font (It was actually created for MS and they ship it with Windows). Maybe it's a setting on your end?

Since Gary or the webcrew will inevitably ask: What version of FF are you using and what version of Windows?

[Morgen]

I'm a bit curious as well, as I do use the good old Firefox and mine doesn't look anything like that.

I'd assume that it is on your end.

[Kor - Orc Scrollkeeper]

Its been like this on all versions of Firefox that I use. I always keep it right up to date. I installed Chrome hoping it would appear better, but it does not. Only IE seems to give the "smooth" appearance.

I am running Windows XP

[Wolf Munroe]

Looks like the Internet Explorer shot is using Font Smoothing while the Firefox shot isn't. That's my guess anyway.

I'm using Firefox and mine looks like the top shot, but it doesn't bother me and I wouldn't notice a problem except you pointed it out.

I'm kind of curious but the difference wouldn't be enough to get me to switch to IE.

[Wolf Munroe]

Here, I got it solved.

This is a link to the Mozilla solution. I searched "font smoothing" on the Mozilla website.

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/785255#answer-138830

Here's the short answer: Control Panel > Display > Appearance > Effects: "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts" > ClearType

This is a Windows setting to cause programs to use ClearType fonts. IE apparently uses them by default.

Hmmm... Now I'm not sure if I like this better. I'm accustomed to the pixelated fonts.

[Kor - Orc Scrollkeeper]

Wolf Munroe wrote:

Here, I got it solved.

This is a link to the Mozilla solution. I searched "font smoothing" on the Mozilla website.

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/785255#answer-138830

Here's the short answer: Control Panel > Display > Appearance > Effects: "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts" > ClearType

This is a Windows setting to cause programs to use ClearType fonts. IE apparently uses them by default.

Hmmm... Now I'm not sure if I like this better. I'm accustomed to the pixelated fonts.

That fixed it. Thanks a lot... it looks soooo much better now!