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Why is italic rendering in Firefox so poor?

I use Safari most of the time, but occasionally switch to Firefox for development purposes. There’s always something annoying about Firefox that makes me switch back sharpish. Today’s bugbear: crappy rendering of italic fonts.

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Wikipedia content rendered in Firefox:

Italic rendering in Firefox

Same content rendered in Safari:

Italic rendering in Safari

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Glen Scott

I’m a freelance software developer with 18 years’ professional experience in web development. I specialise in creating tailor-made, web-based systems that can help your business run like clockwork. I am the Managing Director of Yellow Square Development.

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