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firefox package

  1. Bug #42955
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 42955

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Kaihsu Tai (kaihsu) wrote :

Strangely, if I open a web link from the ‘About Ubuntu’ help page, the font is antialiased. Running
  ps -elf |grep firefox
gave the following:

0 S kaihsu 12709 1 0 85 0 - 438 wait 12:20 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/firefox http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/
0 S kaihsu 12722 12709 0 85 0 - 439 wait 12:20 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/
0 S kaihsu 12726 12722 23 75 0 - 42038 - 12:20 ? 00:00:10 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/
0 S kaihsu 12828 12759 0 77 0 - 747 pipe_w 12:21 pts/2 00:00:00 grep firefox

Trying to mimic these commands gave Firefox instances without antialiasing. I am puzzled.