Posts tagged “firefox”

Firefox 3 released: still looks dodgy on Mac

Posted by Glen on June 17, 2008. No comments.

Using Firefox 3 is really a different experience from using OS X. Itâ€™s not Windows, itâ€™s not OS X and itâ€™s not Linux. Itâ€™s something else. Firefox 3 brings Ugliness to the Mac Firefox 3 download

Why is italic rendering in Firefox so poor?

Posted by Glen on February 12, 2008. 2 comments.

I use Safari most of the time, but occasionally switch to Firefox for development purposes. There’s always something annoying about Firefox that makes me switch back sharpish. Today’s bugbear: crappy rendering of italic fonts. Compare and contrast (click to view actual size) Wikipedia content rendered in Firefox: Same content rendered in Safari: Plastic Ono Band [...]