Ubuntu 10.x Firefox font rendering fix for Gnome
As a Ubuntu user you may notice Firefox does not obey the Gnome Appearance Setting with respect to the font rendering.
To make Firefox match your Gnome font rendering setting, simply erase the following file links in the /etc/fonts/conf.d folder
10-antialias.conf
10-hinting.conf
10-hinting-slight.conf
In a terminal type,
cd /etc/fonts/conf.dsudo rm 10-*.conf
Restart Firefox for the changes to take effect.
How to restore the symbolic links
sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-antialias.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/
sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-hinting.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/
sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-hinting-slight.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/