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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Blurry text with QtWebEngine
Well, you should try the beta version of Chrome. Chromium developers are removing GDI support and use DirectWrite as a replacement. This causes blurry fonts on Chromium/Blink-based browsers. See if you experience the same level of blurriness with a beta release of Chrome. You wrote that Opera didn't produce the blurriness. I would also give Opera beta a try.

If both Opera beta and Chrome beta produce the same kind of blurriness, welcome to the greatest manifestation of developer idealism idiotism, when some maniacs, that always demand progress and don't want to maintain a little more amount of code, can even oppose common sense (and eyesight). If this is the case, please make your voice heard on the forums below.

No option to disable DirectWrite - Google Product Forums
Keep the "Disable DirectWrite" option (GDI font rendering) - Opera forums
Keep GDI font rendering as an alternative to DirectWrite - Google Groups
Are you serious about forcing DirectWrite upon us? - Goolge Groups

Meanwhile, some Otter developer could confirm if this change in Chromium will affect Otter in the future or not.
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Otter and Windows XP
Please keep Windows XP support as long as you can.

You could even try Visual Studio 2010 to build your Windows binaries. Visual Studio 2010 is the last to support XP but it supports newer systems as well. Google Chrome used to be built with VS 2010 until Google dropped the support for XP. Visual Studio produces faster and smaller binaries than MinGW.