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Kubuntu 12.04 - Fonts on some sites are not avaliable

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St_sanya
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Dear administration, after I've installed FireFox 20.0 on Kubuntu 12.04 on some sites I can't see any text, in spite of it presents on source page. I tried to solve this problem in different ways and found that changing checkbox "Preferences - Content - Fonts & Colors - Advanced" "Allow pages to choose their own fonts ..." off shows all letters but as you understand with bad fonts so I can't work. So as I understand problem is that Firefox doesn't show some downloaded fonts. I tried to change different encondings and reinstall application but nothing has changed.

Dear administration, after I've installed FireFox 20.0 on Kubuntu 12.04 on some sites I can't see any text, in spite of it presents on source page. I tried to solve this problem in different ways and found that changing checkbox "Preferences - Content - Fonts & Colors - Advanced" "Allow pages to choose their own fonts ..." off shows all letters but as you understand with bad fonts so I can't work. So as I understand problem is that Firefox doesn't show some downloaded fonts. I tried to change different encondings and reinstall application but nothing has changed.

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cor-el
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Can you post a link to a publicly accessible page that doesn't require authentication (log in) to access it?

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).

St_sanya
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Thanks a lot, I've solved this issue. Using your second link I found that Firefox doesn't show Tahoma, so I removed installed earlier Tahoma.ttf from system and now everything works fine. Solution is quite simple but I thought that problem was concerned with Firefox not with Linux and couldn't solve it. Maybe you can write me where I can find correct Tahoma font for Linux?