[Bug 164640]

[greg]

Like some others, I also object to keeping the "legacy" filter as the
default. Freetype doesn't call it legacy without reason: it is optimized
for one special rendering preference, full native hinting (IMO it's
doing badly even in that case), and is crap in all others. Moreover, if
the fonts do not have high-quality hinting instructions, it does a bad
job as well. I think this isn't even subjective, the color fringing of
the "legacy" filter is bad regardless of display and/or personal
preferences.

If you still think it matters to not "surprise" users (I certainly would
call improved text rendering a good surprise, though), the FIR3 filter
might be a good choice for the default, but I'd surely go for the
default (FIR5) by default. This is how it should be anyway.

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Title:
  Build Firefox 3 against a subpixel-patched cairo

Status in Fontconfig - Font Configuration Library:
  Fix Released
Status in libcairo  -  cairo vector graphics library:
  Confirmed
Status in fontconfig package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in libcairo package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in xulrunner-1.9 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

  In Ubuntu 7.10 and newer, Firefox 3.0 looks out of place with subpixel
  rendering enabled, due to the fact that it uses an unpatched, bundled
  version of Cairo.

  The patch should be ported to Cairo 1.5 and applied in the firefox-3.0
  package.

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