Chromium Terrible Font Rendering

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I just upgraded www/chromium to version chromium-37.0.2062.94 and the font rendering is absolutely terrible. Has anyone experienced this issue and/or have suggestions on how to resolve this?
 
Yes, I have and there is a noticeable difference. The the top image is Firefox and the bottom image is Chromium.
 

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Oh crikey, I remember some vague instruction on the post installation of Chromium that instructs you to load an Android font set in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

I can't remember the full details but will try and track down!
 
I have droid-fonts-ttf-20131024_1 installed on my system. Either way, no matter what font I try to use within Chromium they are not rendered very well.
 
Can you try running Chromium from a command prompt adding the switch -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased and also -webkit-font-smoothing: none (sadly I am not in front of a BSD machine to try this myself)?

See if any of those help.
 
Hmmm, it would appear that Chromium is not using font anti-aliasing. The trick is going to be how to turn it on. Is anti-aliasing activated in X.Org?

Further to this I have some others who have had similar issues: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11487427/is-there-any-font-smoothing-in-google-chrome. For me this is heading towards a bug in Chromium.

In addition it may be worth trying the details from the FreeBSD Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html to see if that helps.
 
I think the font smoothing is fixed in version 36 but I could be wrong. I'm running version 37 on FreeBSD-9.3 and don't see the problems in the images above.
 
Yes, I read all over the internet that version 37 was supposed to have fixed this! I did notice the latest version appears to 37.0.2062.103 a little on from the one listed but still a bit puzzled as to why this is having an issue.
 
I guess this must be something unique to my system, and until I get this resolved Chromium is completely useless for me.
 
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