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The fonts in a few websites (like google and facebook) have all become bold

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Francisco replied
Francisco
Francisco

This happened while I had my browser opened. Not sure what caused it. One tab had it, another didnt. Restarted browser now all have it.

If it helps, google chrome is having a similar issue with all pages having italic font. tried clearing cache, restarting, etc. Incognito mode was working fine before. Now it is also having the issue.

https://imgur.com/a/QDdpZOc

This happened while I had my browser opened. Not sure what caused it. One tab had it, another didnt. Restarted browser now all have it. If it helps, google chrome is having a similar issue with all pages having italic font. tried clearing cache, restarting, etc. Incognito mode was working fine before. Now it is also having the issue. https://imgur.com/a/QDdpZOc

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cor-el
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This could caused by a corrupted font that the browser replaces by another font.

You can right-click and select "Inspect Element" to open the builtin Inspector with this element selected.

You can check in the Rules tab in the right panel in the Inspector what font-family is used for selected text. You can check in the Font tab in the right panel in the Inspector what font is actually used because Firefox might be using a different font than specified by the website.

You will have to uninstall or reinstall a corrupted font.

Francisco
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That didnt solve it. But I just figured it out:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428087

This is the bug. The solution is creating the value on the registry for Arial (Somehow it was missing).