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Installed chromium-browser from the repos and, apart from one thing, I just love it:

Font rendering is very poor, what I mean by that is that fonts appear very "thin" and "watery". I don't have this problem with fonts in other applications, so I'm assuming that it's a problem specific to the Chromium browser. Anyone any ideas how to solve this please.

-- Martin

Goto system settings>application appearance>fonts

Have a look at use Anti-aliasing : set to enabled, hit configure and select sub-pixel rendering-RGB and hinting style-slight.

Be sure to apple and it only affects newly opened apps. Logout and back in to see system wide results.

It should thicken the fonts in Chrome, especially in the address bar.

Somewhere there is a setting for per app fonts.

Also you can go to MCC>System> Manage fonts and select get windows fonts to import fonts from the windows partition if you have one.

@yankee495: As he uses GNOME per his signature, that may be the wrong instructions
Also as he seems to have no font problem with other GTK apps, seems Chromium does something special there

Aww Dok, sorry about that.

But it is good for you KDE people.

Yes, I'm using Gnome but I've been into Advanced Settings -> Fonts -> Antialiasing and changed it from Grayscale to Rgba, which has definitely improved font rendering in Chromium but it's still nowhere near as good as it should be. Thanks for your help.

-- Martin

Dok noted your signature as using Gnome. Why Gnome, 32 Bit, on a 64 bit CPU?

I guess I'm confused now.

The reason I'm running 32-bit on a 64-bit CPU is that when I tried Mageia 1 when it first came out, I installed the 64-bit version and it appeared to run a bit slow. So, I then installed the 32-bit version and, much to my surprise, it ran faster

Maybe I should try the 64-bit version of Mageia 2 and see if that runs slower.

-- Martin

I would be suprised if you see any difference on the system you are running on.

your hardware is what i would call an edge case for 32/64 bit.


not enough memory over the 3.5 gig to make 64 bit worth it.

would suggest you will see little benifit, and possible it may run slightly slower.

regards peter