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On Wednesday 01 Jun 2016 18:13:10 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 05:02:24PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday 01 Jun 2016 17:46:39 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> > > On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 04:38:17PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > > Hello list, |
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> > > > |
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> > > > I have quite a few sites that firefox doesn't display properly. It |
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> > > > seems |
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> > > > to be short of some symbols. I've attached two screen shots; in the |
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> > > > first, the peculiar thing next to the text should (I think) be a broad |
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> > > > up-arrow; and the second shows some buttons from twitter which occur |
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> > > > in |
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> > > > many other sites too. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Does anyone know what I'm missing? |
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> > > |
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> > > Do you use NoScript? If yes, does it allow webfonts? |
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> > |
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> > I should have said that the only extra I have is AdBlock Plus. Disabling |
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> > it |
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> > makes no difference. And your hint reminded me to install YesScript, which |
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> > also makes no difference. |
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> Have a look at the inspector (right-click the offending item, press q). I |
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> don't know whether FX 38 already had that, it's so hard to keep track |
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> noawadays with the ongoing version number inflation. On the right-hand side |
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> of the inspector there should be a Fonts tab which should show you a preview |
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> of the font being used. |
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> |
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> Did you always have this problem or is it new with this version of Firefox? |
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Peter has AdBlock on which interprets some of the icon fonts (e.g. FontAwsome) |
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used on some websites as adverts and blocks them. Disabling it and restarting |
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the browser (ought to) make it work. FF doesn't seem to have the same problem |
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with Google's icon fonts. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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