Font looks sort of 'distorted'

Lately on some places like Photobucket's Upload Button, Livestream's chat box, and flash games, the font seems to look kinda distorted, having it be terribly pixelated with blue inside, here's an example:
http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu249/Celenama/problem.png
Edit- I tested to see if this was only on firefox by playing the same game on Internet Explorer and the font's normal there.

Could be something similar as in this thread: [/questions/770138]
* "Clear the Cache": Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Offline Storage (Cache): "Clear Now"
* "Remove the Cookies" from sites that cause problems: Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies"
Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the add-ons is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).
* Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
See:
* [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]]

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