Why does Firefox keep showing a strange cursive font for certain sections of text on web sites like Wikipedia?
For past month or so, when I view Wikipedia a few other sites, sections of text are displaying in a large, cursive font. I can't find any rhyme or reason to what sections are showing this way. It's not happening on all sites but there are two or three where I'm seeing it. It makes things really hard to read. For a screen capture, see this file I put on YouSendIt YouSendIt.
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Such behavior is usually caused by another font that isn't working and that Firefox replaces by the next font in the list. In this case you can check the Arial Cursiva font.
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You can do a check for corrupted and duplicate fonts and other font issues:
- http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/multipleappsquit.html - Font Book 2.0 Help: Checking for damaged fonts
- http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/garbled_fonts_troubleshooting_guide.html
You can do a font test to see if you can identify the corrupted font.
Thanks. I have identified the font that is showing up as Zapfino, a calligraphic font.
Now what I don't understand is why it's showing up in all sorts of odd places. I just went to Wikipedia and checked source code for a page with the weird problem... and the source code itself is displaying partially in Zapfino. It's like Firefox is just randomly formatting stuff with Zapfino. The same pages and source look perfectly normal in Safari and Chrome.
Do you think just removing the font (which I can't image using) would fix the problem?
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Such behavior is usually caused by another font that isn't working and that Firefox replaces by the next font in the list. In this case you can check the Arial Cursiva font.
I don't seem to have Arial Corsiva installed but when I just now disabled the Zapfino font family, then seems to fix the problem. Text now shows up as intended.