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some website fields not displaying properly

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Some fields shown in the screenshot not displaying properly. How I can I get them to display properly?

Website : forums.macrumors.com Machine: Win 7 laptop I toggled ABP plus and that didnt help with the displaying of the page.

Some fields shown in the screenshot not displaying properly. How I can I get them to display properly? Website : forums.macrumors.com Machine: Win 7 laptop I toggled ABP plus and that didnt help with the displaying of the page.

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Are you running the Firefox 38.3.0 ESR version or the Firefox 38 release?

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If you are on the release update channel then please update to the current Firefox 41.0.1 release.

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Note that 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 to true).

Firefox 41 will allow icon fonts that use PUA code points to work with the font setting in "Options/Preferences > Content > Colors" disabled. When unsupported code points are used then you see the little boxes with the hex code.

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The answer was to allow websites to choose their fonts. Problem resolved. Please close this question.

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Are you running the Firefox 38.3.0 ESR version or the Firefox 38 release?

  • Help > About

If you are on the release update channel then please update to the current Firefox 41.0.1 release.

  • Help > About Firefox

Note that 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 to true).

Firefox 41 will allow icon fonts that use PUA code points to work with the font setting in "Options/Preferences > Content > Colors" disabled. When unsupported code points are used then you see the little boxes with the hex code.

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I am running 38.2.1. I cannot update it to the latest because that's limited by work administrator. Thanks very much. I was able to get it work properly by allowing websites to choose their fonts.

Modified by bshirgur