Font rendering in Internet Explorer vs other browsers on Windows XP

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Published on 2010-06-08T15:37:13Z Indexed on 2010/06/08 15:42 UTC
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I have four browsers installed on my Windows XP SP3 machine: Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, and Google Chrome. For whatever reason, fonts appeared to be rendered differently in IE than in the other browsers. It seems the fonts are anti-aliased in IE but not in the others. Why might this be? Is this an issue with the browsers or my operating system?

I've noticed this issue on several Windows XP machines that I've used. While it may seem like no big deal, the lack of font smoothing in the other browsers keeps me from using them as my primary browser.

Most importantly, what can I do to get the other browsers to render fonts smoothly?

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