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#1 2015-11-24 14:21:47

milk
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Registered: 2013-02-06
Posts: 42

Font issue in Firefox

Hey there,
as the title says, Firefox is not displaying fonts properly. I'm not too sure why:

http://pasteboard.co/2nryiJ6H.png

Can anyone help me figure out how to solve this?
Thanks in advance!

Last edited by milk (2015-11-24 14:23:13)

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#2 2015-11-24 15:16:30

danangdk
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Registered: 2015-02-05
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Re: Font issue in Firefox

maybe it's better with microsoft font installed

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#3 2015-11-24 15:18:33

LCvanDinteren
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From: Netherlands
Registered: 2015-10-27
Posts: 153

Re: Font issue in Firefox

Seems like your 'w' character somehow got replaced.
Just the small one too, not the capital. Perhaps reinstalling the font will fix this?

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#4 2015-11-24 15:24:40

milk
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Registered: 2013-02-06
Posts: 42

Re: Font issue in Firefox

but what exactly do i need to reinstall?

@danangdk: are you serious?

Last edited by milk (2015-11-24 15:25:27)

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#5 2015-11-24 15:34:37

LCvanDinteren
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From: Netherlands
Registered: 2015-10-27
Posts: 153

Re: Font issue in Firefox

Not sure tbh..
You can have a look here.

fc-list

should show all installed fonts.

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#6 2015-11-24 15:42:07

milk
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Registered: 2013-02-06
Posts: 42

Re: Font issue in Firefox

hmm, that lists like 50 fonts...do i need to reinstall each one of them??

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#7 2015-11-24 15:47:18

danangdk
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Registered: 2015-02-05
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Re: Font issue in Firefox

i don't know the cause, but from my fresh install firefox show bad rendering fonts, when i install ms font the rendered fonts are good

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#8 2015-11-24 15:55:03

milk
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Registered: 2013-02-06
Posts: 42

Re: Font issue in Firefox

@danangdk: which fonts did you install exactly? there are a few listed in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microsoft_fonts

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#9 2015-11-24 16:10:05

loqs
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Registered: 2014-03-06
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Re: Font issue in Firefox

milk can you right click one of the elements that is mis rendered -> inspect elements -> then the fonts tab of the bottom right panel that appears should tell you what font firefox is using for that text.

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#10 2015-11-24 16:15:22

milk
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Registered: 2013-02-06
Posts: 42

Re: Font issue in Firefox

things are getting weird: tbh, i haven't installed or changed anything, yet. neither have i restarted firefox. but the font issue seemed to vanish. any ideas why?

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