Package: chromium-browser Severity: normal I investigated further, and it *seems* that chromium might just not use the right hintstyle. I zoomed in on some blurry text from Chromium, and some non-blurry text from Firefox. Both of them use sub-pixel antialiasing, but chromium seems to smear out the font, while Firefox snaps it to a pixel size. If I change the system hintstyle to use "slight", Firefox's fonts look closer to Chromium's, and they smear out the same way.
Screenshots momentarily. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages chromium-browser depends on: ii chromium-browser-ins 5.0.375.29~r46008-3 page inspector for the chromium-br ii libasound2 1.0.22-2 shared library for ALSA applicatio ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libavcodec52 4:0.5.1-3 ffmpeg codec library ii libavformat52 4:0.5.1-3 ffmpeg file format library ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.10.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcairo2 1.8.10-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.86-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libevent-1.4-2 1.4.13-stable-1 An asynchronous event notification ii libexpat1 2.0.1-7 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-1 GCC support library ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-3 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.1-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libicu42 4.2.1-3 International Components for Unico ii libjpeg62 6b-16.1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.4-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library ii libnss3-1d 3.12.6-2 Network Security Service libraries ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.0-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.43-1 PNG library - runtime ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 2:1.1.1-3 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxml2 2.7.7.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.5-2 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-3 XSLT processing library - runtime ii libxss1 1:1.2.0-2 X11 Screen Saver extension library ii xdg-utils 1.0.2+cvs20100307-1 desktop integration utilities from ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime chromium-browser recommends no packages. Versions of packages chromium-browser suggests: pn chromium-browser-l10n <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
