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I stopped using Firefox because of the poor text rendering compared to Chrome. A lot of people here dismissed me, didn't believe me, or just said that I should

by olah_1 4y ago

I stopped using Firefox because of the poor text rendering compared to Chrome. A lot of people here dismissed me, didn't believe me, or just said that I shouldn't care. I can't help but think that the Firefox "community" is just kinda like that. They don't really care about things that regular users are bothered by. Culture dictates priorities, right?

orbital-decay 4y ago
Huh, I left Chrome due to the poor rendering compared to Firefox.
moffkalast 4y ago
Oh that's interesting, same here. None of the antialiasing levels can make it look like chrome which is just so odd. They even redesigned the tabs recently and inverted the selection colours so the tab you're in looks like the only one that's deselected which is just confusing and stupid. Luckily there's a painful way to install a theme that fixes that at least. Neither of that stopped me from using it as the main browser though, it was the lack of specific-tab screen share that's sort of essential for work meetings and is for some reason just absent. I imagine for some people the lack of chromecast support may be a deal breaker too. There's just no end to the list of features it just doesn't have. Mostly I imagine, as all requests on Bugzilla are closed with wonfix, because clearly users don't know shit right? Their HR department must have "extreme arrogance" as a prerequisite for hiring people...
saxonww 4y ago
I think it's more likely that you can see something other people can't. I have this page open on macOS on identical monitors side by side, one in Chrome, and one in FF, and I legitimately can't tell a difference between the two in terms of text rendering. If I was in a discussion with you and you were going on about how poorly Firefox rendered text, I would be skeptical, because I don't see it.
oarsinsync 4y ago
Can someone who can see this issue with Firefox rendering poorly (or other browsers rendering poorly compared to Firefox) take some screenshots of both browsers side-by-side that captures this issue so the rest of us can see?
abbe98 4y ago
I use Chromium every now and then and notice this as well, however, Chromium instead have very poor rendering of images.

by olah_1 4y ago

orbital-decay 4y ago

Huh, I left Chrome due to the poor rendering compared to Firefox.

moffkalast 4y ago

Oh that's interesting, same here. None of the antialiasing levels can make it look like chrome which is just so odd. They even redesigned the tabs recently and inverted the selection colours so the tab you're in looks like the only one that's deselected which is just confusing and stupid. Luckily there's a painful way to install a theme that fixes that at least. Neither of that stopped me from using it as the main browser though, it was the lack of specific-tab screen share that's sort of essential for work meetings and is for some reason just absent. I imagine for some people the lack of chromecast support may be a deal breaker too. There's just no end to the list of features it just doesn't have. Mostly I imagine, as all requests on Bugzilla are closed with wonfix, because clearly users don't know shit right? Their HR department must have "extreme arrogance" as a prerequisite for hiring people...

saxonww 4y ago

I think it's more likely that you can see something other people can't. I have this page open on macOS on identical monitors side by side, one in Chrome, and one in FF, and I legitimately can't tell a difference between the two in terms of text rendering. If I was in a discussion with you and you were going on about how poorly Firefox rendered text, I would be skeptical, because I don't see it.

oarsinsync 4y ago

Can someone who can see this issue with Firefox rendering poorly (or other browsers rendering poorly compared to Firefox) take some screenshots of both browsers side-by-side that captures this issue so the rest of us can see?

abbe98 4y ago

I use Chromium every now and then and notice this as well, however, Chromium instead have very poor rendering of images.