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A community portal about Mozilla Firefox with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Mozilla Firefox is a free, open source, cross-platform graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers. Started as a fork of the browser component of the Mozilla Application Suite, Firefox has replaced the Mozilla Suite as the Mozilla Foundation's flagship product. Firefox is often abbreviated as FF ; officially it is Fx or fx.
Mozilla FireFox Tips & Tricks: Activate ClearType Font
On computers running Windows Vista and Windows XP, ClearType delivers improved font display quality over traditional forms of font smoothing or anti-aliasing. The goal of ClearType was to improve the readability on color LCD displays with a digital interface, such as laptops and flat panel displays. Recently I changed desks within the office, which also meant a switching out computers. My new computer is much faster, but after downloading Mozilla Firefox 3.0 I noticed that web pages did not have the same clean effect as the other computer I was using. After much frustration my co-worker showed me a trick that fixed everything! Now, I'm going to share the same tip with you.
1. Right click on your desktop and select “Properties”.
2. Now click the “Appearance” Tab , and then click the “Effects” button.
3. Now select the “ClearType” effect in the second drop down menu box and make sure there is a check in the checkbox.
4. Click Ok 2 times, and you’re done!
Now open Firefox and browse to any website, you will see an immediate effect in the font rendered in your web browser.
To dial in the ClearType font on your computer to its maximum , visit the ClearType Tuner located on the Microsoft typology page and follow the on screen instructions.
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearType/tuner/tune.aspx
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OMG! Since my laptop has been reformatted I've been trying to fix this problem... But I had no idea that that was the way you called it - "Clear Type". I tried to explain to the guy who had fixed it, a friend overseas and my roommate but nobody neither knew what I meant nor how to change it.
So I had to reinstall my Explorer today and even though I think they use it as default, they offered the option to activate it. So from that, I decided to Google it and found this magic page and in less than 1 minute I myself could correct the problem!
Thank you very much indeed! ;-)
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