From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: After an update, firefox no longer respects GDK_USE_XFT=0 and uses anti-aliased fonts anyway Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-1.0.1-1.3.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. GDK_USE_XFT=0 firefox 2. 3. Additional info:
I can confirm that this bug is specific to the Fedora build and persists in the most recent update (firefox-1.0.2-1.3.1). The latest installer build from mozilla.org (Firefox 1.0.2 for Linux i686, English) does not have this bug and continues to respect GDK_USE_XFT=0 to disable anti-aliased fonts.
I wonder if you can use MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 GDK_USE_XFT=0 to fall all the way back to core fonts.
Actually, I should wontfix this because eventually we're going to remove bitmap font support in the form of core x fonts. (Disabling anti-aliasing via render and pango is still an option, though.)
This is not a bug. GDK_USE_XFT is not the right way to disable AA, it's a way to enable the deprecated old font system which happens to not support AA. But the new font system has a no-AA mode. To disable AA, change the font configuration. Preferences->Fonts, or /etc/fonts/fonts.conf