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the text font changes and seem to get smaller

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When I open firefox it is normal but as I am surfing the text seems to get a tighter font and a little smaller. If I reopen firefox it is normal again. Once a window or tab is affected all future displays are affected. If I use the back arrow on an affected page all the pages I go back through are affected. It is not a zoom issue because only the body text is affected and if I change the zoom I can not correct the problem. I have a picture of both a normal and affected window on the same web page but I am not sure how to include it this message

When I open firefox it is normal but as I am surfing the text seems to get a tighter font and a little smaller. If I reopen firefox it is normal again. Once a window or tab is affected all future displays are affected. If I use the back arrow on an affected page all the pages I go back through are affected. It is not a zoom issue because only the body text is affected and if I change the zoom I can not correct the problem. I have a picture of both a normal and affected window on the same web page but I am not sure how to include it this message

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Try to reinstall the not working Verdana fonts.

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Hi,

Please check if this happens in Safe Mode.

Problematic Extensions

Troubleshooting Extensions and Themes

Uninstalling Add-ons

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See if you can identify to which font Firefox is changing.

You can do a font test to see if you can identify corrupted font(s).

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The fonts Verdana and Verdana Bold are being changed to Arial narrow and Arial narrow bold. This change will also happen when I am running firefox in safe mode.

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You can try enabling the option Allow pages to choose their own fonts instead of my selection above in Tools (Alt + T) > Options > Content > Advanced (under Fonts & Colors), if it is not selected. You can also try to change the substituted fonts in the Serif and Sans-serif columns. Options > Content

To check if any of the fonts are missing in the system, type fonts in the Windows Run box (Windows key + R) and enter. This opens the OS fonts folder which contains all the installed fonts.

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Try to reinstall the not working Verdana fonts.

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The font is changing from Verdana to Arial narrow only in firefox. The fount is still useable by word even after it gets changed in firefox. I currently allow web pages to choose there fonts. If I do not allow the website to choose the font some of the pages I visit look wrong.