On 10/11/19, Marek Mosiewicz <marek.mosiew...@jotel.com.pl> wrote: > > For long time problem for me was fonts hinting. I'm not sure if it is > optimal, but for me selecting TrueType fonts in > > dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config > > makes correct font hinting, both in Gnome Desktop and Chromium > browser. > > Firefox is however lacking. Currently Debian uses Firefox ESR. Firefox > from Buster has copy of freetype library in modules/freetype2 dir. This > is freetype 2.9 version . > > As stated here https://www.freetype.org/ version 2.10.1 correct > TrueType hinting. > > Current Firefox from Mozilla already uses this most current freetype > version. > > Does SID Firefox version helps with font rendering ?
Don't know the answer to this question. Anyway, if for 'SID' you mean debian-sid/unstable, I don't think that your best option is to move to that branch of debian (just to solve the firefox+fonts issue). Try simply downloading the last version of firefox-stable [1] (.tar.bz2 file) in a convenient local folder, uncompress it, and execute the 'firefox' file/binary. That should work just fine, I guess. Regards! [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
