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arnuld

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From: INDIA

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Firefox can not display YAHOO mail Icons

Hi there,

Firefox is unable to display icons in YAHOO mail. It shows some chinese characters instead. I  am sure this is the issue is with Firefox because Chrome displays evey icon fine. Check out the icons beneath big YAHOO logo in screenshts. Any idea what is wrong ?

http://i58.tinypic.com/ta0bdf.jpg

http://i58.tinypic.com/awcft4.jpg

Moderator edit [ewaller] converted over sized image tags to url

Last edited by ewaller (2014-07-18 04:16:45)

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ewaller

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Re: Firefox can not display YAHOO mail Icons

Please be sure to read our policy on posting pictures

Firefox displays icons on Yahoo just fine here.

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ConnorBehan

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Re: Firefox can not display YAHOO mail Icons

I suspect a driver issue, but it's strange that it would just be those icons. Does it help to change the value of "gfx.xrender.enabled" in about:config?

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arnuld

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Re: Firefox can not display YAHOO mail Icons

@ewaller: Sorry about posting method of pics, Have read the policy now.

@ConnorBehan No, changing that value has no effect.

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mkoskar

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Re: Firefox can not display YAHOO mail Icons

I would suggest to:

• create new, plain FF profile (you want to get rid of all possible custom settings, extensions, etc.) - $ firefox --help (check -ProfileManager)

• confirm that the issue still persists

If it does then:

• investigate the page structure, to what these images link to? what's the "alt", are these images at all? maybe they are actually font glyphs, etc.

• investigate network activity on page load, is everything ok?, any JavaScript errors?

• why some Chinese? what's your browser's preferred language? any correlation?

It's seems like a problem of a specific website on your specific profile, test on clean profile to get to some common testing ground.
I don't use Yahoo, so I can't be more helpful, just wanted to point out possible debugging options.

arnuld

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From: INDIA

Registered: 2005-12-19

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Re: Firefox can not display YAHOO mail Icons

@mkoskar  I turned  this option on:

Firefox --> Preferences --> Content -->  Advanced --> (Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above)

and then reloaded the page and icons displaying properly now. But I got new problem, their "own fonts" are damn ugly.  I will turn the option off because Chinese characters + my fonts were looking better than their "own fonts" with properly displayed icons.

EDIT: It  is strange though that Chrome diplays everything fine
EDIT2:  I opened http://fontello.com/  and firefox can not diplay a single icon there but chrome does.

Last edited by arnuld (2014-08-06 05:29:12)

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