Firefox for Linux always seems to ship with the crappiest possible font configuration. Why? This is what the fonts look like by default on a fresh install of Firefox 1.5, and also in Ubuntu's unreleased "Dapper" distribution's current 1.5 package.
![badtext](http://static.flickr.com/41/75801967_46cb6d9c23_o.png)
Now, here is the same text rendered using fonts that are packaged with the distribution, and in fact, almost all Linux distributions these days:
![goodtext](http://static.flickr.com/37/75801981_ca728cd3b5_o.png)
"FreeMono", "FreeSans", and "monospace". Was that really so hard?