The fifth beta of Firefox has been released. "Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 5 has been released for testing. The fifth beta of the next major Firefox version offers over 750 bug fixes over Beta 4, including improvements in user interface, location bar autocomplete, bookmark backup and restore, full page zoom and other new features based upon user feedback."
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Member since:2006-01-24
using firefox beta 5 here on winxp foxnews.com looks just like the epiphany shot, the second shot you posted looks like you've just upscaled it.
edit: looking at the shots again it's like the browsers are using different dpi's for their text rendering (assuming you haven't changed default font size or some such in Firefox). also the hinting looks pretty awful on the epiphany shot, while the larger (and better hinted) font rendering of the firefox shot seems to stretch the image cells making the pictures look ugly.
Edited 2008-04-03 22:15 UTC
Member since:2005-11-10
Try pressing Ctrl+0 to reset zoom to 100%.
You've got some kind of scaling going on, either in your OS, or in Firefox because it doesn't look like that for me on defaults.
I've begun to notice a pattern in the comments though - everybody having some kind of problem with Firefox is using Linux. Maybe the port is lagging behind?
Member since:2005-07-06
people mod me down cause i have a problem with firefox. god these OSS nazi's never cease to amaze me. Hurry mod me down before people here something isn't perfect.
anyway. I scaled it down and the text is still cut off but the fonts are no tiny and unreadable. the fonts are serif and monospace. Min font size is set to 10 (also tried up to 14)
Member since:
2005-07-06
How do i get OSnews to render full screen?
also i'll give you an example of the rendering i mean. this is two screenshots from foxnews.com you can see in epiphany all the words are visible but on firefox the last sentences are cut off only giving half the discription. not only that but the thumbnail pics are very distorted under firefox
Epiphany 2.20
http://i29.tinypic.com/246302s.jpg
Firefox b5
http://i27.tinypic.com/nd0b4n.jpg
There are examples of many other sites around the net that have txt overlapping other text and things like that. I'm not using noscript or any other plugins to block scripts or popups. just default.