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Yes, but (a) there’s too much software I still use that isn’t hi-DPI capable, and (b) I use a 1920x1200 display so would lose 10% vertical height, which is quite significant.

It’s all a question of trade-offs of course

Regarding the search highlight color, Firefox has the (mis)feature that if the highlight background color is too close to the text background color (which is the case for yellow vs. white background), then it inverts the search highlight text and background color, i.e. you get yellow text on black background for the highlight, instead of black text on yellow background. The rationale is accessiblity, i.e. requiring a minimum contrast for the highlight background against the normal background. But for me that behavior is anti-accessibility, and it can't be turned off. The issue has been raised since the behavior was introduced in 2009, but the maintainers don't want to change it. The corlor inversion implementation also seems to be pretty deep in the stack, and tied to the HTML <mark> tag.

Regarding font rendering, there have been multiple issue reports over the years, although most users complain that Firefox doesn't render text like Chrome, which I tend to find even worse than Firefox. ;)

Thanks. Now that I looked into it again, the issue I have is not just the Duplicate Tab feature, but that opening a link in a new tab or window clears the history of that new tab/window instead of cloning the history of the source tab. that means that you can't quickly open a couple of links into new tabs/windows, with each of them preserving the current history. I don't think there's a fix for that.

To be fair, on IE it doesn't clone the entire window, just the current tab into a new window. Still, that's my main use case, and AFAICT it's not possible in Firefox by keyboard or even with a single mouse action.

Thanks. Yes, I tried all possible parameters for font rendering in Firefox. For some reason none of them match the sharpness of the IE rendering.

Thanks. The main problem is that there doesn't seem to be a way to access it by keyboard. Secondly, it's also not possible to convert a tab to a separate window by keyboard. So what is a single keypress on IE becomes a cumbersome operation.

Is there a page somewhere that explains what it does? I’m not a particular fan of macOS font rendering though.

I still use IE as my default browser (and Firefox as a fallback), for the following reasons:

– The font rendering works better for my eyesight.

– Killer feature: Ctrl+N/K clones the browser window/tab including the history. I.e. you can effectively fork the history. EDIT: And, equally important, opening a link in a new tab/window also preserves (clones) the history.

– Certain keyboard operations have better usability than on other browsers.

– The title bar + address/tab bar height height is smallest among all browsers (after some configuration).

I’m slowly getting used to the inevitability of migrating to Firefox. The font rendering and especially the clone-by-keyboard feature are the hardest part though. (And the fact that Firefox doesn’t allow yellow as a search highlight color.)