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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by bscphil on Thursday June 27, 2019 @05:51PM (#20299209)
I'm confused. Doesn't Firefox use Freetype on Linux? Freetype has subpixel rendering.
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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by mmmrk on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:27PM (#20309310)
Subpixel rendering is different from subpixel positioning.

See e.g. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=824153 for some gory details.

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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by ahartmetz on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:13AM (#20304450)
AFAICT Firefox text rendering has always been fine on Linux. Chrome until a year or two ago had no subpixel antialiasing, different gamma for antialiasing, or whatever - its text rendering used to look ugly, or more neutrally: different from everything else.
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