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Mozila Upgrade

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Wheelerof4te
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Re: Mozila Upgrade

#16 Post by Wheelerof4te »

kepler19 wrote:The problem is that the next version of ESR requires rust, and Stretch does not have this package in the repos.
Plot twist: Debian Buster is released before June 2018.
On the bright side, rust can be backported in the next point release. If Ubuntu 14.04 can run FF57, why couldn't Stretch FF59?

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Re: Mozila Upgrade

#17 Post by Bulkley »

steve_v wrote:
Ardouos wrote:Waterfox is an honourable mention too, I have not used it though.
I'm tempted . . .
Do it. I just downloaded the Tarball, unpacked it and it runs in userspace :!: :D On first opening I chose to import my Firefox setup and it's all there, bookmarks and all. This is easy. Get it here.

You can add something like ~/Downloads/waterfox/waterfox to your menu for convenience.

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Re: Mozila Upgrade

#18 Post by Bulkley »

Just a followup. Waterfox is very much like Firefox. The only significant difference I notice is that Firefox does a better job of rendering fonts.

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Re: Mozila Upgrade

#19 Post by L_V »

Bulkley wrote:Firefox does a better job of rendering fonts.
Try with this ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

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<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
 <!-- Reject bitmap fonts in favour of Truetype, Postscript, etc. -->
 <selectfont>
  <rejectfont>
   <pattern>
    <patelt name="scalable">
     <bool>false</bool>
    </patelt>
   </pattern>
  </rejectfont>
 </selectfont>
 <match target="font">
  <edit name="rgba" mode="assign">
   <const>none</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

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Re: Mozila Upgrade

#20 Post by Bulkley »

L_V wrote:Try with this ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
Thanks for that. I had the file but your fonts.conf is better than my fonts.conf. I probably had an earlier version. Yours sharpened up fonts on both Waterfox and Firefox.

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Re: Mozila Upgrade

#21 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

^ && ^^ you might see some benefit from also applying hintslight — that's how Ubuntu ship their desktops.

Here's BunsenLabs' fonts.conf, it works very well indeed:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Bunse ... fonts.conf
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Re: Mozila Upgrade

#22 Post by Bulkley »

BunsenLabs' fonts.conf, it works very well indeed
Yes it does. Thanks.

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Re: Mozila Upgrade

#23 Post by kepler19 »

L_V wrote:
Bulkley wrote:Firefox does a better job of rendering fonts.
Try with this ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

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<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
 <!-- Reject bitmap fonts in favour of Truetype, Postscript, etc. -->
 <selectfont>
  <rejectfont>
   <pattern>
    <patelt name="scalable">
     <bool>false</bool>
    </patelt>
   </pattern>
  </rejectfont>
 </selectfont>
 <match target="font">
  <edit name="rgba" mode="assign">
   <const>none</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>
where should put it on Firefox config?
It's not the answers that matter, it's the questions.

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Re: Mozila Upgrade

#24 Post by L_V »

kepler19 wrote:where should put it on Firefox config?
Not in Fx config.
It's a general setting: ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

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