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I can not see the navigation icons on my screen.

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FoxPhoenix
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The navigation icons that allow you to choose where to go on a site will not display on my screen. I have included a screen clip to illustrate. The message in the little box that replaces them is too small to see. Can someone please help? Thank you.

The navigation icons that allow you to choose where to go on a site will not display on my screen. I have included a screen clip to illustrate. The message in the little box that replaces them is too small to see. Can someone please help? Thank you.
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Missing icons are usually supplied by a font that is downloaded from the server (@font-face) as you might see by little boxes that show the hex code of the characters instead. If you have a font installed that covers this Unicode range then you may see a real (CJK) character and not the little box with the CSS code.

Make sure that you allow pages to choose their own fonts.

  • Tools > Options > Content : Fonts & Colors > Advanced: [X] "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above"

You can check the gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled pref on the about:config page and make sure that it is set to true (if necessary double-click the line to toggle its value).

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cor-el
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Missing icons are usually supplied by a font that is downloaded from the server (@font-face) as you might see by little boxes that show the hex code of the characters instead. If you have a font installed that covers this Unicode range then you may see a real (CJK) character and not the little box with the CSS code.

Make sure that you allow pages to choose their own fonts.

  • Tools > Options > Content : Fonts & Colors > Advanced: [X] "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above"

You can check the gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled pref on the about:config page and make sure that it is set to true (if necessary double-click the line to toggle its value).

FoxPhoenix
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cor-el, You are brilliant! Your answer was spot on and solved my problem. Thank you very much for you quick and accurate response.