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Amazing work. Chromium launches much faster than firefox on my ubuntu install. The fonts look really funny, though. Is there a place to fix that?

There are two things you can do to affect fonts. The first is to rebuild freetype from source, turning on the patented hinting. In Ubuntu, that appears to be unnecessary. You can also copy a Tahoma.ttf from a Windows install to ~/.cxchromium/chromium/drive_c/windows/fonts/
directory. That will probably make the change you crave.

Cheers,

Jeremy

I tried putting tahoma.ttf into the fonts directory, but that didn't change anything. It doesn't look like I'm seeing a wrong font, rather everything appears anti-aliased wrong. So letters are randomly one pixel up or down, and some strokes on characters are too thick versus too thin.

(I haven't restarted my computer since dropping the ttf file in the fonts directory, so I'll try again later after doing that.)

Thanks,
Darius

That sounds like a freetype issue; that's what you get when using the non patented hinters. I bet you're on a 64 bit system? We've seen this there. If you can grab a libfreetype.so.6.3.X from a 32 bit Debian system and put it into your /usr/lib32 directory, you'll probably get some joy.

Cheers,

Jeremy

I have several «libfreetype.so.6.3.X» files installed in my /usr/lib32 directory on 64-bit Ubuntu Hardy, but the rendering of fonts in Chromium is still deficient. Anything else I can do to resolve this problem ?...

Henri