Gfx.use text smoothing setting

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The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is gfx.use_text_smoothing_setting.

This article describes the preference gfx.use_text_smoothing_setting. To add, delete, or modify this preference, you will need to edit your configuration — do not edit this article.

1 Background
2 Possible values and their effects
- 2.1 True
- 2.2 False
3 Caveats
4 First checked in
5 Has an effect in
6 Related bugs
7 Related preferences
8 External links

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Background

By default, Mozilla will use anti-aliasing on all rendered text in OS X. However, OS X has a system preference which turns off anti-aliasing on text at or below a certain size. This preference determines whether or not Mozilla should honor that system-wide setting.

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Possible values and their effects

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True

Honor the “Turn off text smoothing for font sizes ___ and smaller” setting in OS X’s appearance system preferences when deciding whether to anti-alias rendered text.

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