If you use Chimera to browse the web, you may have noticed that it doesn't use anti-aliasing on small font sizes. Of course, two other Cocoa-native browsers do: Safari and OmniWeb; why not Chimera? The answer lies in the fact that Chimera uses Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine, which itself is using Carbon APIs to render the text. The UI of Chimera may be written in Cocoa, but the rendering engine is pure Carbon.
The way to fix this is to grab TinkerTool (v2.32) if you don't already have it, and enable the Manipulate font smoothing for applications using QuickDraw option under the Font Smoothing tab. Set the size field to, say, 4 or 6, logout/login, and voila!
As an example of the differences, these are before and after shots of a small section of the New York Times front page rendered in Chimera.
The way to fix this is to grab TinkerTool (v2.32) if you don't already have it, and enable the Manipulate font smoothing for applications using QuickDraw option under the Font Smoothing tab. Set the size field to, say, 4 or 6, logout/login, and voila!
As an example of the differences, these are before and after shots of a small section of the New York Times front page rendered in Chimera.
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