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Anonymous

Apr 09, 2019

Improve font rendering to be on par with Firefox or at least original Edge

The thing that always made me swithc back to Firefox when trying out Chromium based web browsers was font rendering. You can even see that in the UI of Chromium-Edge, where the Segoe UI font is much ...

Copper Contributor

Dec 25, 2019

I cannot believe this has marked as "Not applicable". I hate all of the Chromium browsers because of this bug. The way they render fonts is disgusting. This is why I always return to Firefox.

Anonymous
Dec 27, 2019
pozxc If you haven't tried it yet, we've diversified our options for font settings, which you can check out here: edge://settings/fonts. We hope that's a satisfactory resolution!

Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
- pozxc
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 27, 2019
  DeletedThank you for your reply and the suggestion. I've tried the most recent canary version, which is 81.0.375.0, and all I see in edge://settings/fonts is some regular font family and font size settings:
  
  What I and the original poster tries to mention is the problem that all Chromium browsers have on Windows.
  
  The following screenshot is from Mozilla Firefox:
  
  And the following one is from Chromium Edge:
  
  I hope the difference is noticable.
  
  Bonus:
  
  This one is from the non-Chromium Edge (almost equal to Firefox):
  - Dean72
    Brass Contributor
    May 16, 2020
    pozxcI've been a Firefox user for many years, but I agree with you completely. And, to me, looking at the pictures you posted, the best is Old Edge, then Firefox, then Chromium is utterly last.

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