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unreadable font

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hello i have this font showing on nearly all website normally in the area where you need to be able to read. if i copy this text and put it into google it puts it back as the normal text not the messed up text i see. i have a photo of it but there is no where to upload the screen shot

hello i have this font showing on nearly all website normally in the area where you need to be able to read. if i copy this text and put it into google it puts it back as the normal text not the messed up text i see. i have a photo of it but there is no where to upload the screen shot

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ah i can add an image after creating the question

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).

  • Do not click the Reset button on the Safe mode start window or otherwise make changes.

This can be a problem with the font that is used to display the text.

You can use this extension to see which fonts are used for text that is selected (right-click context menu: Show fonts in selection).

You can do a font test to see if you can identify corrupted font(s).

You can try different default fonts and temporarily disable website fonts to test the selected default font.

  • Tools > Options > Content : Fonts & Colors > Advanced
  • [ ] "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above"