Firefox 3 bring some impressive new features to text rendering: kerning, ligatures, hinting, and more.

Demonstration of ligatures in a Firefox 3 text box
Two great summaries have been written on the topic in the past few weeks:
Unfortunately, Ralf’s investigation seems to show that some of the functionality is still a bit buggy in Firefox 3 on the Mac — adding discretionary ligatures automatically, and not using context-sensitive glyphs appropriately.
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