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Me too.

There is an annoying text-shadow: 0px 0px 1px

Folks do that because it looks "good" on safari on macs and don't realize it looks horrible elsewhere.

yep, gotta love the black text shadow on black text ;)

Blurry in firefox here, not blurry in chrome (win7, desktop lcd).

it's a hack because web-font support still sucks in many browsers. Sadly it makes things much worse in firefox..

It shall smooth out the edges which sometimes are aliased