Why are the fonts so ugly?

When I'm using the Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin (10.1.8.24) in Firefox (25.0.1 in this case) I'm getting terriby ugly fonts from domcuments I'm invoking from sites.
In MSIE 11.0.9600 the fonts look fine and anti-aliased. Not so in FF.
Example (ugly case):
Example (nice):
I'm using Noscript (a javascript / script blocker) and it might have to do something with this but even when I disable the blocker temporarily, it doesn't make the fonts look nicer.
Any clues?
TIA,
Christoph

Are you sure you are using the Adobe Reader plugin, and not Firefox' own PDF viewer?  See http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1158136

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