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firefox profile issue (icons)

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  • 30-05-2014 7:34pm
    #1
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,097 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I have this strange issue where some stock icons show up all weird on Firefox when logged in under my own account.

    This happens on a lot of sites with Firefox but not with Chrome or Opera and also not on Firefox when logged into Ubuntu as another user.

    I don't want to delete my FF profile if I can avoid it but I guess I can export/import my bookmarks into a new profile if it comes to it. I'd like to understand how these images are being corrupt though.


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    #2
    azzeretti
    Registered Users Posts: 1,477 ✭✭✭azzeretti


    pickarooney wrote: »
    I have this strange issue where some stock icons show up all weird on Firefox when logged in under my own account.

    This happens on a lot of sites with Firefox but not with Chrome or Opera and also not on Firefox when logged into Ubuntu as another user.

    I don't want to delete my FF profile if I can avoid it but I guess I can export/import my bookmarks into a new profile if it comes to it. I'd like to understand how these images are being corrupt though.

    Looks like a policy origin problem. Have a look in about:config for strict_origin_policy and change it to false.


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    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,097 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    tried changing it and restarting FF but no joy.


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    #4
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,097 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    it happens even in safe mode


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    PrzemoF
    Registered Users Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭PrzemoF


    Those "icons" are not really icons. They are characters. It's a trick to get nice scalable icons without to much work. So you're missing a font and I think it's called "icon-font"


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    Walnutcracker
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭Walnutcracker


    I had this issue before and it was because I had disabled "Allow pages to choose their own font, instead of my selections above". Go to preferences > content > advanced. You'll find the setting there.


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    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,097 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Bingo! Now I just have to get used to all these websites with their crazy choices of fonts :D


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    #8
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,097 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Does anyone use hotmail/outloook.com? The fonts look like total cack when the site is let choose its own. I'm not sure if there's some way around it; those calibri/whateveritscalled fonts don't scale properly on linux.


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    PrzemoF
    Registered Users Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭PrzemoF


    Try this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/document-font-toggle/?src=api


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