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Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox? Here Are Some Tips by rjmunro on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @10:48AM (#37223540)
The problem with "very much off" for font rendering is that it is relative to what you are used to, not relative to any actual standard font rendering. If you've been using Firefox a while, Chrome will look off. If you've been using Chrome, Firefox will look off.
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Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox? Here Are Some Tips by unethical_ban on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @11:00AM (#37223723)
"off" implies an error. Which browser does it correctly? Having used Vivaldi and Firefox in close succession I never noticed a difference.
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Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox? Here Are Some Tips by crazygringo on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @11:47AM (#37224450)
No, "off" in this case merely implies different from what you're used to.

This is aesthetic preference, there's no such thing as "correct". It goes back to the old debate on Mac vs. Windows font rendering -- do you like pixel alignment or do you like letterform accuracy? There's no right answer.

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Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox? Here Are Some Tips by Dylan16807 on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @01:24PM (#37225904)
There's no right answer to that question, but Mac does render fonts too thin because of gamma issues, if I'm remembering right.
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Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox? Here Are Some Tips by dataflow on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @10:27PM (#37231204)
> No, "off" in this case merely implies different from what you're used to.

Kind of enough, but...

> This is aesthetic preference, there's no such thing as "correct".

"Correct" for the purposes of this discussion could be the normal OS rendering, and deviation from that is what would be "off"-ness.

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Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox? Here Are Some Tips by TonyTrapp on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @01:55PM (#37226347)
Maybe I am reading too much into the sentence but to me, "some people just don't notice or don't care" implies that there is something objectively broken about it that can be quantified.
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Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox? Here Are Some Tips by dataflow on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @10:21PM (#37231162)
There is. I just posted a screenshot and explained it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37231149
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