This was my experience, too. I upgraded, loaded the site I'm working on, and had a minor freakout moment when all the text appeared to have gone completely ass-

This was my experience, too. I upgraded, loaded the site I'm working on, and had a minor freakout moment when all the text appeared to have gone completely ass-up, to use the technical term. I panicked less when I saw other sites looked just as bad, but yeah, I hope it doesn't ship like that, or the internet is going to look terrible. Edit: Here's a comparison shot. http://i.imgur.com/uBqrp.png http://i.imgur.com/uBqrp.png Accelerated on the right. Notice that smaller text looks particularly squished/fuzzy, and seems to have colored artifacts. Also, the height of the page changed, even though the content is the same - I made sure the orange bar was aligned, and the screenshots were taken about 30 sec apart. All that changed was flipping the gfx.direct2d.disabled preference and restarting. Edit: And another comparison: http://i.imgur.com/8WVLd.png http://i.imgur.com/8WVLd.png Accelerated is on the left. Notice the text on the nav links, the tags on the right of each page, and the word "answers" in the green boxes. Question titles are more "bold", and are somewhat slimmer, resulting in a different page height as a line doesn't wrap. It looks pretty terrible.