Fonts hard to read at small font sizes in browser.

Hi!
Recently i switched to Arch 64-bit and everything seems fine but the fonts at some places.
This is what they look like:
This is my .fonts.conf:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<dir>~/.fonts</dir>
</fontconfig>
I have installed ttf-ms-fonts, ttf-dejavu, ttf-liberation and ttf-tahoma.

If I zoom out a bit in Firefox I get which isn't perfect but is quite readable. The interesting thing is that I don't have the nasty looking serif font in the text box. Is one of us missing an installed font?
My /etc/fonts/local.conf
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>


<match target="pattern">
<test name="family" target="default" compare="eq">
<string>Trebuchet</string>
</test>
<edit binding="strong" mode="prepend" name="family">
<string>Trebuchet MS</string>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<test name="family" qual="any">
<string>Trebuchet</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="family">
<string>Trebuchet MS</string>
</edit>
</match>


<match target="pattern">
<test name="family" target="default" compare="eq">
<string>Arial</string>
</test>
<test name="weight" compare="more">
<const>bold</const>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same">
<string>Arial Black</string>
</edit>
<edit name="weight" mode="assign">
<const>bold</const>
</edit>
</match>


<match target="font">
<edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign">
<const>lcdnone</const>
</edit>
<edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
<edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign">
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
<edit name="embeddedbitmap" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>



<match target="font">
<test name="scalable" compare="eq">
<bool>false</bool>
</test>
<edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign">
<const>hintnone</const>
</edit>
</match>

<match target="font">
<test name="weight" compare="more">
<const>medium</const>
</test>
<edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign">
<const>hintnone</const>
</edit>
</match>

<match target="font">
<test name="slant" compare="not_eq">
<double>0</double>
</test>
<edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign">
<const>hintnone</const>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>

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