Data Circle

I recently upgraded to the latest release of Ubuntu (Hardy Heron) and one of the first things I noticed was that the fonts in Firefox looked very odd, particularly on sites using sans-serif fonts such as Verdana or Arial (and their equivalents). At first this didn’t bother me too much, but over the course of a few weeks it became a real bug bear, and I was beginning to use my Mac or boot into Windows XP just to look at websites, which obviously isn’t ideal.

Fortunately, there’s a quick and easy fix for this problem—simply install the package ‘msttcorefonts’. You can do this via the graphical package manager (System->???????? ????? ????????Administration->Synaptic Package Manager) or using the command line with ‘sudo aptitude install msttcorefonts’. You might need to reboot your system after doing this, but it all seems to be working again for me.