Opera "blurry" font killing my eyes

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Font rendering on Chrome, Firefox and Edge is much smoother and pleasant to the eye.

Why is text on some sites shown edgy and ugly on Opera 46?

Here’s an example article.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/01/volvo-admits-its-self-driving-cars-are-confused-by-kangaroos

Opera on left, Chrome on right, both captured at 150%.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/3hr3hpck5wcgrm9/Opera_Chrome_font_010717.jpg

It’s obvious to the user, but not so easy to capture on image.

If you think it looks the same, go to The Guardian and toggle browsers with Alt-Tab on same text.

46.0.2597.32 (PGO) WIN10-64. HWA On.

[rouloubole]

rouloubole last edited by

Yeah Vegelund we got the same problem.

Wonder if they could fix it as well. :p

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

I read that disabling opera://flags/#enable-font-cache-scaling may help on some font issues.

Don't forget to read the warning at the top of the page.

You may also try playing with opera://flags/#lcd-text-aa and opera://flags/#distance-field-text

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

The point is; why should we mess around with (super) advanced settings, when ALL the other browsers display site and font mentioned above nicely?

Feels more like Opera should change something default.

It’s not a font issue. It’s an Opera Browser issue.

[gcg1000]

gcg1000 last edited by

Hi-

You might want to check out: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/font size?_category=extensions and https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/download-chrome-extension-9/

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

If you’re standing on a nail, you don’t take painkillers and keep standing on the nail.

You remove your foot from the nail.

Adding extensions or tweaking experimental features to resolve basic functionality is a pill fix, a non-FDA approved one.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

why should we mess around with (super) advanced settings, when ALL the other browsers display site and font mentioned above nicely?

It would be just a workaround.

[abusivefather]

abusivefather last edited by

You can't do anything. its because the Chromium engine used by Opera.

[rouloubole]

rouloubole last edited by

Hello,

I tried the various options leocg proposed, and none solved the problem. It made it even worse, so I guess the default options are not that bad

[slipstream2334]

slipstream2334 last edited by

But I'm sure there was no problem with that in previous Opera version. I didn't notice that using earlier Opera, there was no problem with that All starting to mess with latest version, which in my opinion broke more than improve.

[apbucaneg]

apbucaneg last edited by

right now, i reverted to opera 45 and disabled the auto update. until then, i'm waiting for a fix for this.

[staiger]

staiger last edited by

Same problem here. I've uploaded a .png showing a screengrab of text from Opera and Vivaldi. The Opera characters look terrible.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34762256/Opera and Vivaldi screenshot.png

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Fixed, thank you Opera!

Site mentioned as example above looks perfect after today's stable update.

I also love the small elegant tweaks on design elements in browser and the longer closed tabs list.

WIN10-64. 47.0.2631.39 (PGO) Norwegian language. HWA on.