Safari fonts not as clear as Firefox on Windows

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Safari fonts not as clear as Firefox on Windows

I've been using my Aluminum 15" powerbook for about a year. I keep getting annoyed that my 2 year older Compaq Windows laptop is clearer when viewing web pages in Firefox but in Safari the same web pages are not as clear. Take dpreview, the camera website. On Windows Firefox all the writing is very clear. On my powerbook using Safari everything seems to be in Bold.

Is their anyway I can fix this so I can have my Safari using same Fonts as Windows perhaps? Is the Powerbook display not good?

PowerBook G4 Alu 15, Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Nov 25, 2005 1:18 AM

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Answer 1

ibosie

Level 4

1,122 points

Nov 25, 2005 2:13 AM in response to robster303

This is a feature of Tiger of think. Font weight is much heavier than previous versions of OSX. The dpreview site has a background colour which unfortunately when combined with OSX font weight causes font edges to blur.

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Answer 2

iBod

Level 7

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Nov 25, 2005 4:21 PM in response to robster303

Hi,

Have you tried playing with the font smoothing settings in System Preferences -> Appearance ?

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robster303 Author

Level 1

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Nov 25, 2005 7:33 PM in response to robster303

I put the Font Smoothing on 12 and now dpreview looks clearer. However, now my Entourage looks awful. Is there anyway to select font smoothing settings per application rather than system wide?

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