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Firefox changed display font to Times New Roman all by itself. Already tried Options:Fonts w/o success - nothing changes..

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Apparently after remote support session the display fonts for my installation changed to a hard-to-read font, even though the options:font menu says default fonts are Times New Roman and Arial. How to recover?

Apparently after remote support session the display fonts for my installation changed to a hard-to-read font, even though the options:font menu says default fonts are Times New Roman and Arial. How to recover?

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Hi steve158,

See if anything in this article helps: Change the fonts and colors websites use

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Still the same. Some websites are now defaulting to almost-non readable fonts..

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Can you post an example url ?

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Looks like I have had a system-default font change - Outlook is now defaulting to an anemic Arial, too. Ideas

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I'll look into that for you.

In the meantime, do you have

  • Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above

set in your Firefox Font settings ?

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I found this:

In Windows Settings, type fonts in the search bar. Select Fonts from the list A Control Panel window will open On the left, select Font Settings Click on Restore Default Font Settings

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Found the window, but no Restore Default option. Win 10 home.

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It should look like this:

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Big improvement, but default fonts are now an anemic arial. If I change the "Default Font" in the Options window and do another "restore", would that propagate just like this last time? BTW, thanks for the help!

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You should be able to change your font in the options to whatever you like without having to do a "Restore'" in Windows.