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Italic text is displayed as numbered squares

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liamk1
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See image for problem.

It's not just on this one page, though, it's on any page that uses or or font-style:italic in a css file.

It also appears in popups for plugins, and in Firefoxes own areas like messages in the Console. It permeates Firefox, making me think it's a missing default font, or something like that.

Following a tip I tried setting the security.sandbox.content.level value to 1 and 0, but no change.

Name Firefox Version 78.0.2 Build ID 20200708170202 Distribution ID canonical-002 Update Directory /snap/firefox/392

See image for problem. It's not just on this one page, though, it's on any page that uses <em> or <i> or font-style:italic in a css file. It also appears in popups for plugins, and in Firefoxes own areas like messages in the Console. It permeates Firefox, making me think it's a missing default font, or something like that. Following a tip I tried setting the security.sandbox.content.level value to 1 and 0, but no change. Name Firefox Version 78.0.2 Build ID 20200708170202 Distribution ID canonical-002 Update Directory /snap/firefox/392
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liamk1
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Restarting Firefox fixes the behavior. This leads me to believe that some js application is altering Firefox's default font, css, or something like that. But considering the number of windows I have open, I don't know how I would track it down.