To fix the strangely large Firefox fonts in Ubuntu Karmic:

sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf
sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-no-sub-pixel.conf
sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.available/10-hinting-medium.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/.
sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.available/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

Thanks to this post on the Ubuntu forums.

Archived Comments

Date: 2009-11-18 10:03:02 UTC

Author: Edmund

Thanks Carlo! That worked a treat.
I didn’t do the command
sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-no-sub-pixel.conf
because that file doesn’t exist on my system.
But the problem was sorted using the rest of the commands.

Date: 2009-12-17 14:15:11 UTC

Author: Pierrick Le Gall

thank you carlo

This page came 3rd on a Google search with ubuntu 9.10 firefox fonts and it was the right one.

It worked nice!

Date: 2010-01-16 12:45:18 UTC

Author: Tom

Thanks!