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Nah, it's Firefox 30 on Windows 7. I just reduced the size to make the two links fit in the same view.

That font rendering, someone save my eyes.

Perhaps... it's just a very low res screenshot... (or was that your joke anyway? ;) )

I just had to reduce the % resolution of the browser to fit both links in the same view.

could just be a barebones install.

Arch + xmonad/i3/awesome/whatever no-desktop-compositor-included-DE looks like that out of the box.

Probably other distros, too, but Arch has no font hinting/aa defaults either so the problem is usually exacerbated as compared to something like debian or ubuntu.