How to fix bad font rendering of firefox-flatpak?

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Hi, I am using Gnome 41.8 and Firefox flatpak version. I noticed fonts appears in some website and I did not change any settings as I am new to Linux and especially openSUSE. I really need help to resolve this. Thank you for your kind attention and time.

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I don’t understand what you’re asking for. That image you’ve posted (I’m assuming it’s a screenshot) is perfectly readable to me.

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Thanks for the reply. You will notice letters are broken into pixels if you click on the image.

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Correction: I noticed fonts appears in pixelated or unreadable for some websites
Apology for the typo.

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Does this pertain to Gnome Wayland?

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See if this helps…
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/lfcd5l/font_rendering_issues_on_flatpak_version_of/

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This is the same for Wayland and X11.

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Also…

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Thanks for those links. Apparently, pasting following in the terminal improved the situation for Firefox,

  mkdir -p ~/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/config/fontconfig/conf.d
  cp /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf ~/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/config/fontconfig/conf.d/
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Thanks for the update. Good to know that inhibiting bitmap fonts was sufficient here.

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This one also works, but

seems easy to implement.

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For sure. I read that in the github thread as well…

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I wonder why this problem hasn’t been fixed yet! It appears that it has been an issue for more than four years.

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