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why on certain sites does the font change to a Diamond with a ? inside

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Only certain site and not happen on Internet Explorer, only firefox

Only certain site and not happen on Internet Explorer, only firefox

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Check the encoding and make sure that you haven't selected Unicode (UTF-8), but that Western (ISO-8859-1) is selected.

Firefox > Web Developer > Character Encoding
View > Character Encoding
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-> Tap ALT key or press F10 to show the Menu Bar

-> go to Help Menu -> select Restart with Add-ons Disabled

Firefox will close then it will open up with just basic Firefox. Now do this:

-> Update ALL your Firefox Plug-ins https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/

-> go to View Menu -> Zoom -> click Reset -> Page Style -> select Basic Page Style

-> go to View Menu -> Toolbars -> unselect All Unwanted toolbars

-> go to Tools Menu -> Clear Recent History -> Time range to clear: select EVERYTHING -> click Details (small arrow) button -> place Checkmarks on Cookies, Cache -> click Clear Now

-> go to Tools Menu -> Options -> Content -> place Checkmarks on:

1) Block Pop-up windows 2) Load images automatically 3) Enable JavaScript

-> go to Tools Menu -> Options -> Security -> place Checkmarks on:

1) Warn me when sites try to install add-ons 2) Block reported attack sites 3) Block reported web forgeries 4) Remember Passwords for sites

-> go to Tools Menu -> Options -> Advanced -> Network -> Offline Storage (Cache): click Clear Now button

-> Click OK on Options window

-> click the Favicon on SearchBar -> click Manage Search Engines -> select all Unwanted Search Engines and click Remove -> click OK

-> go to Tools Menu -> Add-ons -> Extensions section -> REMOVE All Unwanted/Suspicious Extensions (Add-ons) -> Restart Firefox

You can enable your Known & Trustworthy Add-ons later. Check and tell if its working.

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الحل المُختار

Check the encoding and make sure that you haven't selected Unicode (UTF-8), but that Western (ISO-8859-1) is selected.

Firefox > Web Developer > Character Encoding
View > Character Encoding
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Thanks Cor-el this was the easiest way to do it,but the font size does appear smaller than when i use IE is this normal? many thanks

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Reset the page zoom on pages that cause problems: View > Zoom > Reset (Ctrl+0 (zero); Cmd+0 on Mac)


You can use one of these extensions to set a default font size and page zoom on web pages: