[firefox] gfx.font_rendering.fontconfig.fontlist.enabled must remain false

[coopsmoss]

First of all, thanks a lot for these. Only issue is that when I do:

gfx.font_rendering.fontconfig.fontlist.enabled = false
restart
gfx.font_rendering.fontconfig.fontlist.enabled = true
restart
The problem with the fonts comes back

I'm using Firefox 45.0.1 on Ubuntu 15.10.
I'm just leaving it as false at the moment, not sure if it's having any detrimental affects.

Cheers

[13rac1]

Thanks for creating an issue about this! The solution in the README worked for me and a number of others. Hmm... Now that you mention it, I realize while it fixes the actual problem, bold fonts are just far too bold with it set to true. I've actually got it set to false for that reason on my machine.

Are there relevant details you could add to @salty-horse 's issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1254245 ?

Related to #1

[13rac1]

True:

False:

The font weight seems doubled with it True.

[13rac1]

This should be fixed according to: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1245811#c47

[13rac1]

Firefox 46 was just released, but this regression isn't fixed until Firefox 47. I'll update the readme to say users of Firefox <47 should set this to false.

[salty-horse]

Firefox 47's planned release date is 2016-06-07.

[PhilippBaschke]

I am using the Firefox Developer Edition (currently at 48.0a2 (2016-05-10)) and the fonts only look right (like they used to look before) when I set gfx.font_rendering.fontconfig.fontlist.enabled to false. 😢

[13rac1]

Thanks @PhilippBaschke I'll update the readme.

[NoXPhasma]

When I set gfx.font_rendering.fontconfig.fontlist.enabled to false fonts will be displayed correctly, but some sites will crash Firefox. For example Wikipedia always crashes Firefox. When I set gfx.font_rendering.fontconfig.fontlist.enabled back to true nothing crashes.

Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa - Firefox 46/47b