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Can't choose certain installed fonts.

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I'm trying to personalize Firefox and I was running into some problems. I'd like to have an installed font, Leros, to be applied everywhere. Things are going allright, but if I select the font in userChrome.css, it won't work. I was curious so I chose another font, Dovah, a nonsense-font since it's from a game language, and it showed up fine. I just tried applying Leros as default font for monospace fonts in the Preferences menu, but it doesn't show up there.

What is this? How do I use the Leros font for customizing Firefox? If even Dovah can be selected...

I'm trying to personalize Firefox and I was running into some problems. I'd like to have an installed font, Leros, to be applied everywhere. Things are going allright, but if I select the font in userChrome.css, it won't work. I was curious so I chose another font, Dovah, a nonsense-font since it's from a game language, and it showed up fine. I just tried applying Leros as default font for monospace fonts in the Preferences menu, but it doesn't show up there. What is this? How do I use the Leros font for customizing Firefox? If even Dovah can be selected...

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If that is a bitmap (raster) type font then it may not work in Firefox.

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It is. So Firefox simply doesn't support bitmap fonts? Damn.

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I'm not sure about that, but the font may be broken or incompatible if you can't select it.

Any luck with hardware acceleration (or direct write) disabled?

  • Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"

Bug 661471 - Create preference(s) to allow specific font families to be forced to use GDI Classic rendering