How can I disable ligatures and still allow pages to use their own fonts?
I often save to PDF or mark text then transfer it into a document. Firefox renders many letter combinations as ligatures: ff, fi, ffi, fl, and more. I don't want ligatures. The cures proposed have involved forbidding pages to use their own fonts. Is there another way?
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You can override CSS rules supplied by the webpage with your own rules in userContent.css by appending the "!important" flag to each property value.
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You could possibly use code in userContent.css to disable ligatures.
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-feature-settings
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-variant-ligatures
More info about userChrome.css/userContent.css in case you are not familiar:
- https://www.userchrome.org/what-is-userchrome-css.html
- https://www.userchrome.org/how-create-userchrome-css.html
- https://www.userchrome.org/firefox-changes-userchrome-css.html
You need to set this pref to true in about:config to enable userChrome.css and userContent.css in Firefox 69+.
- about:config => toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets => true
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox
I'm talking about pages authored by others, not myself.
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You can override CSS rules supplied by the webpage with your own rules in userContent.css by appending the "!important" flag to each property value.
Thanks. I've never written a CSS so I took a minute to figure it out. For those as slow as I am:
body{
font-variant-ligatures: none; !important
}
in chrome/userContent.css
It annoys me that it's in the 'chrome' subdirectory, a subdirectory I didn't have until now. Why doesn't Firefox have its own?
Firefox uses the "chrome://" protocol to access its internal files and use chrome in other cases like userChrome.css/userContent.css (no relation with Google Chrome).
Thanks. Chrome seems like a poor choice of words. What is it supposed to mean? And why use ligatures inappropriately? Many instances of ff and ffi in English aren't ligatures - one knows because the word should be separately into syllables by dividing them there; one can't do that with 'real' ligatures such as æ and œ.