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Firefox 2022 - Gibberish text

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dm17
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I read your suggested solutions to the gibberish text problem (inspector), but I still can't figure out how to fix it in my browser. Why has this suddenly happened to me? Could it be an updated Mac OS Ventura 13.0.1 or Firefox issue? I am the admin of a website and I can't even type an email to send to members. It's all gibberish. Same with MailChimp. And with websites I visit. If I copy and paste the gibberish to another platform (Notes, for instance), it renders properly. I have used Firefox for years so I hate to change, but I need a simple solution. This is driving me crazy.

I read your suggested solutions to the gibberish text problem (inspector), but I still can't figure out how to fix it in my browser. Why has this suddenly happened to me? Could it be an updated Mac OS Ventura 13.0.1 or Firefox issue? I am the admin of a website and I can't even type an email to send to members. It's all gibberish. Same with MailChimp. And with websites I visit. If I copy and paste the gibberish to another platform (Notes, for instance), it renders properly. I have used Firefox for years so I hate to change, but I need a simple solution. This is driving me crazy.

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cor-el
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Did you find out what font this is bout ?

This is usually caused by a problem with a specific font and you need to identify this font and fix this. You can check in Font Book for font issues like corrupted and duplicate fonts.

You can right-click and select "Inspect" to open the built-in Inspector with this element selected.

You can check in the Rules tab in the right panel in the Inspector what font-family is used for selected text. You can check in the Fonts tab in the right panel in the Inspector what font is actually used because Firefox might be using a different font than specified by the website.

Note that you shouldn't disable "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above" as this will cause issues with iconic fonts used by webpages to display small icons (you may see text labels instead of icons).