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Wrong character display on certain website

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Wrong character display on certain website


On certain website like this or engadget i see all the character in a wrong way. I got the same problem on 2 different computer. The addons that i've installed are: FIREBUG, ADBLOCK, Java console. Any idea on how to fix this? Thank yoy in advance.

Here a screen shot of what i see: http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/4527/wrongs.jpg


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Wrong character display on certain website On certain website like this or engadget i see all the character in a wrong way. I got the same problem on 2 different computer. The addons that i've installed are: FIREBUG, ADBLOCK, Java console. Any idea on how to fix this? Thank yoy in advance. Here a screen shot of what i see: http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/4527/wrongs.jpg == URL of affected sites == http://

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cor-el
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This issue can be caused by the bitmap version of the Helvetica or Geneva font or another (bitmap) font that can't be displayed by Firefox in that font size. Firefox can't display that font in the specified size and displays gibberish instead. You can test that by zooming out (View > Zoom > Zoom Out, Ctrl -) to make the text smaller.

Uninstall (remove) all variants of that not working font to make Firefox use another font or find a True type version of that font that doesn't have the problem. ..... See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Issues_related_to_fonts#Gibberish See also /forum/1/566006