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My browser continues to show weird symbols instead of words

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my browser continues to show symbols instead of words. I troubleshot the font issue and it does not seem to be that. this is on a macbook pro and the browser is updated. I deleted the browser and reinstalled it. which worked for a day but then everything went back to showing symbols. it is intermittent in that sometimes it will show the real words and then a few hours later is will show this.

my browser continues to show symbols instead of words. I troubleshot the font issue and it does not seem to be that. this is on a macbook pro and the browser is updated. I deleted the browser and reinstalled it. which worked for a day but then everything went back to showing symbols. it is intermittent in that sometimes it will show the real words and then a few hours later is will show this.
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See this recent thread about font issues on Mac:

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This is a font issue on Mac and we have seem quite a few such reports over time.

See also this bug report.

  • 1803406 - [macOS] Text rendering issues when users have multiple fonts which internally use the same name, and the OS chooses differently among them for different Firefox processes

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On the Firefox Home page in the second screenshot you should be able to right-click this weird text and open the Inspector. There you can open the Fonts tab in the right panel to see what font Firefox is using.

You can right-click and select "Inspect" to open the built-in Inspector with this element selected.

You can check in the Rules tab in the right panel in the Inspector what font-family is used for selected text. You can check in the Fonts tab in the right panel in the Inspector what font is actually used because Firefox might be using a different font than specified by the website. If the Fonts tab is hidden, click the down arrow at the right end.

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Workarounds include:

  • Uninstall old or unused fonts.
  • Identify the garbled font with devtools inspector (Cmd+Opt+C) and uninstall it.
  • Go to about:config and change gfx.e10s.font-list.shared and gfx.font-list-omt.enabled to false then restart the browser.