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opening news links prompts same strange download

Goodpancakes
Goodpancakes
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Trying to access Google/Yahoo news articles generates this download across multiple links. Is this a font? Links work in native android chrome. I have never selected to download, page never loads. See attached screenshot.

Trying to access Google/Yahoo news articles generates this download across multiple links. Is this a font? Links work in native android chrome. I have never selected to download, page never loads. See attached screenshot.
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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Yes, a woff2 is a font file. It's difficult to think of a reason for Firefox to think it was supposed to download the file rather than use it in rendering the page. ??