Comment 15 for bug 189720

(In reply to comment #14)
> I've compiled Minefield from trunk myself, using only Ubuntu-distributed
> libraries (like libcairo2-dev), but the text rendering remained the same. Is
> there anything obvious I'm missing?

Did you use the --enable-system-cairo in your .mozconfig? Note that you'll need cairo >= 1.5. That's only in Hardy for now.

Otherwise you can patch the in-tree cairo version using the patch on https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10301