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Firefox not showing fonts correctly on facebook

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Rossco_
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All the text on facebook or sites with facebook 'likes' etc do not show up correctly, its the like font is not installed on my computer.

All the text on facebook or sites with facebook 'likes' etc do not show up correctly, its the like font is not installed on my computer.

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creativej
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carstensis fix did it for me! All looking great again.

I only really noticed the problem with fonts in Facebook as I just upgraded to Firefox 4 (using XP) - but it looked ugly :(

I went to 'Control Panel > Fonts' removed all 'Lucida Grande' fonts - redownloaded them from http://font.pendownload.com/2009/10/lucida-grande-facebook-font/ and installed ONLY the 'True-Type' NOT 'Type 1' fonts.

I am sure you could just find and remove the 'Lucida Grande Type 1' fonts, but I wanted to be sure ;)

Thanks carstensis!!!

nickienicole
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Thank you so much!!! I've spent hours searching for the solution to this problem, and you've cleared it up for me :)

carlosj
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Try this easy fix :)

1.) Type in about:config in the Navigation Toolbar 2.) In the Filter field, enter "gfx" (This brings you to the gfx or graphics settings) 3.) All values are "true" except for "gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled" which should be "false". Leave other settings untouched. 4.) Restart Firefox

Now you have Firefox looking as good as the other browsers :)

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