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I was reading an entry on slashdot about the new Firefox 2.0 RC2 release and decided to give it a try. The new aesthetic changes are nice and I definitely like the new add-on's manager which manages themes and extensions. While I'm typing this I realize another added feature is a spell check for form text area fields. One thing that I couldn't figure out, though, was why slashdot looked different on firefox 2.0 than on firefox 1.5, so I finally took a screenshot of the two and held them side-by-side. The image above shows the results. On the left is version 1.5 and on the right is version 2.0 rc3. I checked the settings of the fonts and the only thing in 2.0 rc3 that is different is there is no font resolution (DPI) setting. The name of the fonts used are the same and at the same sizes. I'm not sure if this font difference is the same under Windows since my primary system is a Linux box.