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On Mozilla Firefox (on GNU/Linux) with default font and UTF-8 encoding, I am seeing some websites, such as GitHub, display weird characters across the page.
Under a different browser, such as WebKit based, the site looks normal.
What is causing these icons or glyphs to appear when I view such sites?
Dacav
Posted 2013-02-05T21:48:52.303
Reputation: 195
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If a website viewed in Firefox looks like it's all jacked up but in other browsers it's okay then you may have switched off allowing the site to download and/or display a custom font.
This is usually the case if you are seeing gibberish like a small box with numbers and letters on top of each other on parts of the website where you would expect to see custom icons.
To fix this, go to
Tools → Options → Content → Fonts & Colors → Advanced
Make sure the following has a check mark in the box:
☑ Allow characters to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above
OK, OK, and you will now see the font icons the site has set up.
random
Posted 2013-02-05T21:48:52.303
Reputation: 13 363
1Note: This also applies to Firefox' internal PDF viewer (pdf.js). If "Allow characters to choose their own fonts[...]" is disabled, most PDF files will look very weird, because all text will use the default font. – sleske – 2013-02-06T23:35:05.913