this is a bug. fonts are really ugly and don't look the same compared to the rest of the system at all. in fact, not only those fonts look out of place in GNOME, they look out of place compared the to menu bar of firefox itself (which is antialiased)!
-- [edgy Knot-2 CD] firefox's fonts are uglified (not antialiased) https://launchpad.net/bugs/58511 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
