Hello,
Has anybody tried mozilla firefox with xft from download available at
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0.1/contrib/firefox-i686-pc-linux-gnu-jds3-gtk2+xft.tar.gz
or
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0.1/contrib/firefox-i686-pc-linux-gnu-jds2-gtk2+xft.tar.gz
It is meant for java desktop system, but works well in mandrake &
fedora core, & font rendering is very good. Please try
vasudevan