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Why is the type in your new update faulty? I get boxes of A's instead.

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Ever since the new upgrade the text is working incorrectly. On some sites I just get boxes of A's where the letters text should be. I have already lost my bookmarks trying to fix the problem.Firefox finally started working yesterday and after restarting the computer, the browser works on some sites and does not on others. Why is Firefox automatically upgrading when the new browser has such problems? I can not use it as is.

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Ever since the new upgrade the text is working incorrectly. On some sites I just get boxes of A's where the letters text should be. I have already lost my bookmarks trying to fix the problem.Firefox finally started working yesterday and after restarting the computer, the browser works on some sites and does not on others. Why is Firefox automatically upgrading when the new browser has such problems? I can not use it as is. Attached is a sample image.

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We have seen cases where a box with all '?' or all 'A' is displayed that might be related to using a Last Resort font that displays all the glyphs with one same character.

You can try to set this pref to 1 on the about:config page.

  • security.sandbox.content.level = 1

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.

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We have seen cases where a box with all '?' or all 'A' is displayed that might be related to using a Last Resort font that displays all the glyphs with one same character.

You can try to set this pref to 1 on the about:config page.

  • security.sandbox.content.level = 1

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.

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Thanks. It works fine now. I appeciate your help.