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Too much spacing between words everywhere in Firefox

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So I installed Firefox a while ago and tried it out, was pretty nice but didn't have a couple features at the time so I uninstalled it. Recently I was thinking of going back to Firefox for a bit since some extensions I wanted was working on Firefox again so I reinstalled it. After opening Firefox the whole UI is a mess with words having too much spacing between each other everywhere including Google searches, Firefox settings etc. Mozilla's webpage itself and YouTube didn't seem to be broken but that's about the only one sI've seen that is not broken. Haven't really used the browser because of this issue so not sure what other sites don't have the issue. Not sure how to better describe this so I'm attaching a few images, thanks to anyone who's willing to help me with this.

For a few things I've tried, it was trying to start in safe mode, removing the ~/.mozilla folder and reinstalling firefox. Other than that not sure what to try so any help would be appreciated.

OS: Arch Linux Firefox version: 110.0.1

It's a laptop so it has Intel Integrated graphics along with a GTX 1660Ti Mobile as the dedicated GPU. Not sure what other details to provide so let me know what to give and I'll be happy to do so :)

So I installed Firefox a while ago and tried it out, was pretty nice but didn't have a couple features at the time so I uninstalled it. Recently I was thinking of going back to Firefox for a bit since some extensions I wanted was working on Firefox again so I reinstalled it. After opening Firefox the whole UI is a mess with words having too much spacing between each other everywhere including Google searches, Firefox settings etc. Mozilla's webpage itself and YouTube didn't seem to be broken but that's about the only one sI've seen that is not broken. Haven't really used the browser because of this issue so not sure what other sites don't have the issue. Not sure how to better describe this so I'm attaching a few images, thanks to anyone who's willing to help me with this. For a few things I've tried, it was trying to start in safe mode, removing the ~/.mozilla folder and reinstalling firefox. Other than that not sure what to try so any help would be appreciated. OS: Arch Linux Firefox version: 110.0.1 It's a laptop so it has Intel Integrated graphics along with a GTX 1660Ti Mobile as the dedicated GPU. Not sure what other details to provide so let me know what to give and I'll be happy to do so :)
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cor-el
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This is likely a problem with the (default) font that is used. Could be a problem with the emojione-color font that is used for the spaces.

You can right-click and select "Inspect" to open the built-in 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 Fonts 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.

ArchUser93
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Thanks for the great tip! Just a couple of Google searches with the font name and I ended up at this Github issue:

Apparently if you use Noto Color Emoji to render any text that issue comes up. Uninstalling the package noto-fonts-emoji fixes it but I wonder why Firefox uses this font to render spaces instead of the default ones. I tried changing the default but didn't really work for me. Other browsers don't have this issue so I'm not sure that is a real solution. Maybe there is something else I could try? If there isn't anything, that's fine too and thanks a lot for the help!