Selecting clearest English fonts in Firefox?

We purchased a 13" MBA with OS X Lion for wife, and she complains the blurry fonts are hurting her eyes.
Her 2003 WindowsXP (xfx GeForce 6200 card) on a 23" Sceptre at 1920x1200
with display driver's Advance option selected
for fonts display at 144dpi 150% gives crystal clear font edges.
The MBA fonts all have shadowy edges.
(Genius Bar guy told her to sit farther from the screen. She will, close to her Windows computer.)
I have tried setting the smoothing off for under 12 point, unchecking the let page override fonts,
and also tried setting large minimums in Firefox,
(and also tried setting to the exact same Firefox fonts and size preferences as the WinXP:
     Proportional: Serif 16
     Serif: Times New Roman
     San-Serif: Arial
     MonoSpace: Courier New 13
     Minimum: None
There are lots of fonts in the list - any better than the defaults?

Marek wrote:
Look on Firefox interface:
http://i.imgur.com/5Eiqo.png
Top: Work
Bottom: Home
It looks like you have hinting turned on at work and turned off at home. Which one looks better is a matter of personal choice. Some well-hinted fonts, such as MS Arial, appear more readable to me with hinting turned off at sizes <= 8 pt.
Font configuration in Linux can be complicated, but you have much more control over the process than you do with Windows or OSX. The Fonts wiki is a great starting point but there are many good resources out there like this: http://www.nixer.org/anti-alias-truetype-fonts?page=69. Maybe the best way to understand how font configuration works is to study the configuration files in /etc/fonts/conf.avail

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How to Change the Default Font in Firefox 4 , for this >>
http://store2.up-00.com/Mar11/AJG18655.png << ?

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http://screencast.com/t/ZTgzOTM3Y
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We do our best. And if we fall short, well we gave it our best shot.
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I am glad to hear that you are looking to contact FF developers to make an add on. For more information on this mdn has developers answering questions in stackoverflow.com
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*[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/MathML_Project/Fonts Math ML Fonts]
*[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-smooth CSS font-smooth]
If you have not already, please mark this thread as solved by marking the solution. 
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