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Description of problem: When first starting Mozilla on a newly installed Red Hat Linux 8.0.92 system, I notice the fonts are very small, serif, and quite hard to read. The default preferences should be changed to something like: Proportional: Sans Serif Serif: Luxi Serif Sans Serif: Luxi Sans Cursive: URW Chancery L Fantasy: URW Gothic L Monospace: Luxi Mono Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.2.1-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Perform a clean install of Red Hat Linux 8.0.92 (phoebe) 2. Open the Mozilla Web browser Actual results: Fonts used in the GUI and document are both too small to reasonably read. When viewing the Fonts preferences page (Edit->Preferences... Appearance->Fonts), the default font style for proportional text is serif and all font families are set to use Bitstream Charter. Expected results: Fonts are somewhat larger. GUI fonts are sans-serif rather than serif to be consistent with other applications' menus. Each font family (serif, sans-serif, etc.) has a reasonable default. Additional info: My screen resolution is 1280x1024 on a 17 inch monitor.
actually the fonts are so hard to read because they are "anti-aliased", i.e., blurred on purpose to appear "pretty". it would be nice to be able to disable this "feature".
Please note that the description states I believe they are hard to read because they are too small and serif rather than sans serif. It is also to suggest that Mozilla be configured to use the same default fonts as other GUI applications on Red Hat Linux. This bug is not intended to deal with anti-aliasing of text.
This should be fixed in 1.2.1-8.