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I’m going to leap into the abyss here, and declare my unabashed affection for Firefox 3 after having only used the beta for about 20 minutes. Will that be okay? We’ll see.

Some context: I’ve been noticing more and more font-rendering issues in Firefox on Mac OS X. I don’t know the cause, nor why it only seems to affect certain web pages — the image in the first post of this forum thread shows exactly what I’m referring to.

At some point this evening, I became determined to fix this. There must be a fix — a solution, I reasoned. I found a similar issue and resolution, but it didn’t resolve my issue. This wasn’t too surprising as the page I found it on was over a year old. So, kept searching, and noted in the aforementioned thread that font rendering in the Firefox 3 beta was, apparently, flawless.

I figured I would check it out, but I wasn’t too enthused because Greasemonkey will not currently install in Firefox 3.0b1. A few minutes after using FF3, though, it became clear that:

• Firefox 3 is incredibly fast.
• Font rendering is perfect.
• There is no way I’m going back.

I didn’t really want to do without Greasemonkey, so I started searching, which brought me to a thread in the greasemonkey-dev group, which has a link to a FF3-compatible version of Greasemonkey:

http://www.youngpup.net/z_dropbox/greasemonkey-0.7.20071121.0.xpi

Calloo, callay, O frabjous day, I said to myself. I may have chortled, I can’t recollect precisely.

It works perfectly (so far, at least). Shiftspace does not seem to work perfectly, but I’ll have to look into that some more after tomorrow’s final exam.

For which I should probably study, now.