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Re:Firefox 50.0 by dbl9 on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @06:00PM (#12963114)
Built 50.0 with cairo-gtk2 backend using it right now but something different with the font rendering in 50.0. For instance there's a weird washed-out effect of the text in this very same text control I'm writing the comment in which comes and goes with the amount of text changing/wrapping etc.
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Re:Firefox 50.0 by Figs on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @07:05PM (#12963495)
Can you post a screenshot?
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Re:Firefox 50.0 by dbl9 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @09:07AM (#12977517)
Sorry I can't because it's something that happens and doesn't stay. If you run Firefox 50 on Arch Linux, you will see what I mean.
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Re:Firefox 50.0 by dbl9 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @07:27PM (#12983224)
I think I figured it out. Somehow Skia was enabled in Firefox and resetting that seems to have fixed the rendering bug. Given that 51 will turn Skia on by default I hope this will be fixed before the switch.
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