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Some text is showing up in the wrong font, it looks normal on other browers

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It looks like some html text on some websites are showing up with the incorrect font. Instead of a plain san sarif, it's a funky font that's hard to read.

See here for a screen shot from livingsocial.com as an example. It happens on some sites and not others.

http://www.whiteville.com/media/bad-font.jpg

It looks like some html text on some websites are showing up with the incorrect font. Instead of a plain san sarif, it's a funky font that's hard to read. See here for a screen shot from livingsocial.com as an example. It happens on some sites and not others. http://www.whiteville.com/media/bad-font.jpg

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It could be to do with your default font settings. To change these go to:

1. Firefox > Options > Content

2. The settings should look like those in these pictures (for the second picture click 'Advanced' under 'Fonts and Colours':

If this was the answer you were looking for, please click 'Solved' -- Thanks.

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All my settings look like the pictures. Any other ideas?

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You can do a check for corrupted fonts and other font issues: