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Are you using GDIPP? The rendering in your Chrome screenshot points to it (the bad character spacing is an old GDIPP issue)

It doesn't looks like either screenshot is actually showing sub-pixel AA (even though it looks like it should be), but that might just be because it's a JPEG image (destroys the fine colour detail)

Yeah I am, 0.9.1.

I am encouraged by DirectWrite becoming mainstream, but this discussion about DirectWrite being annoying certainly exposes how much further we have to go. Text rendering across all devices kinda blows. The new iPhone and some Android phones do have great font. As do the fonts used in Windows Mobile 7. Readability still hasn't gotten to where it needs to. I for one can't wait.

I am encouraged by DirectWrite becoming mainstream, but this discussion about DirectWrite being annoying certainly exposes how much further we have to go. Text rendering across all devices kinda blows. The new iPhone and some Android phones do have great font. As do the fonts used in Windows Mobile 7. Readability still hasn't gotten to where it needs to. I for one can't wait.

DirectWrite is a huge improvement over GDI, but it's still not enough really (it's really dependant on font hinting, without it the result looks like crap)

That being said, even Freetype/Cairo* (Linux) and Quartz (OS X) aren't "perfect" yet, neither do sub-pixel positioning by default (which funnily enough DirectWrite does).

* Freetype is capable of sub-pixel positioning, but apparently none of the toolkits make use of it.

Edit: Font rendering on my Android phone is pretty terrible. It reminds me of a mix of Windows 98 and old Linux desktops.

New beta Stylish for FF4 is available.

This version is an update for Firefox 4. It includes integration in the new add-ons manager.

i've updated it but... i find it the same as the previous version while the developer says in the post that there are some changes... :/

I guess no-one has any idea if the Chromifox theme will eventually be ported to FF4 - I really REALLY love it and find the new 4.0 theme just a bit blah already

If you're talking about the Extreme version of Chromifox, the author said he is working on Chromifox 4 on his thread on the Firefox forums.

Go HERE and if you read Jeff.Tet's first post on that page, you'll see his explanation of the new version of Chromifox Extreme.

You can also check HERE to see if he has posted any new alpha builds of his theme, but unfortunately it has been several months since he has posted any new builds.

I too love this theme. :)

Anyone try this add-on?

Firefox 4 UI Fixer:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/258712/

Allows you to:

- Move Statusbar to any toolbar (even to custom ones like Personal Titlebar)

- Use Movable Firefox Menu Button (puts Firefox Menu Button in toolbar button so you can move it wherever you want)

- Display Page Title in Titlebar while using Firefox Menu Button

- Add "New Tab" Option to Tab Context Menu

To activate options, go to Add-ons then in Options dialog for this extension, choose desired options.

Just because you don't see the differences doesn't mean they don't exist.

  • #547787 [Firefox:Theme]-New style for the tab bar [Mac]
  • #575515 [Core:General]-Resizing or Dragging the window sometimes locks up the browser (apparently under heavy cpu usage) [Win]
  • #593905 [Firefox:TabCandy]-Add the ability to search the URLs of tabs in Panorama UI [All]
  • #600363 [Firefox:TabCandy]-Remove duplicate CSS in pinstripe theme [Mac]
  • #600476 [Core:Graphics]-Google maps auto scrolling while drawing a route is jerky and slow [Win]
  • #601894 [Core:Graphics]-Artifacts on depth-of-field chrome experiment [Mac]
  • #606160 [Core:Widget: Win32]-Topmost and Rightmost pixels of Close, Maximize, don't work [Win]
  • #608791 [Firefox:General]-onBeforeLinkTraversal should compare host strings instead of top level domains [All]
  • #610266 [Firefox:TabCandy]-Remove Drag.isResizing [All]
  • #610643 [Core:Widget: Win32]-Firefox 4 doesn't render the title bar precisely when maximized in Windows XP [Win]
  • #610773 [Firefox:Theme]-In the Firefox menu items in the right and left panes need to be vertically aligned [Win]
  • #612836 [Core:JavaScript Engine]-"Assertion failure: parent," [Lin]
  • #613502 [Core:Disability Access APIs]-Map <article> like we do aria role "article" [All]
  • #614330 [Core:Disability Access APIs]-Add role name for html:aside [All]
  • #614800 [Core:Disability Access APIs]-coalesce text attribute change events and fire caret move event for the document where event occurred [All]
  • #604866 [Firefox:TabCandy]-Zoom-in not working above a certain preview size [All]
  • #612234 [Core:Widget: Gtk]-[gtk2] Menu item rendered with wrong color in open or hover state [sol]
  • #615061 [Core:Document Navigation]-Domino's Pizza website does not work correctly due to hashchange now being sync [All]
  • #615256 [Core:Layout]-warning: 'PRBool FramesOnSameLineHaveZeroHeight(nsIFrame*)' defined but not used [All]

Does anyone know how I could apply this patch in stylish:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588764

Since it adds some XUL elements and is not only css, it's not applyable directly.

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