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I am using Firefox 23 and Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity.

Today, I was dealing with font configuration to make them look like sharper and less blurry. After some mambo jambo, Facebook started to look like this:

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or like this:

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I believe this is something related to msttcorefonts or Ubuntu restricted extras or some terminal commands such as "fc-cache". I do not have this problem for any other webpage. I tried to reset font settings via MyUnity. I tried to create a new Firefox profile. I started Firefox add-ons disabled. None of them worked. I have been trying to find a solution to this but could not come across one at anywhere so I decided to ask here.

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  • Do you need msstcorefonts? If not just removing it and run fc-cache -f -v should do the trick.
    – Salem
    Sep 1, 2013 at 15:33
  • Ben - you appear to have multiple accounts. please click the contact-us link at the bottom of this page to request that your accounts are merged. Once done you will be available to edit your question again with any replies.
    – fossfreedom
    Sep 1, 2013 at 18:34
  • @fossfreedom The accounts appear all to be unregistered. Can unregistered accounts be merged via the contact us link, or is it necessary to register an account first? Sep 1, 2013 at 19:12
  • SE like a registered account to merge to - however, they have "other means" to determine if two accounts are the same, so it is possible to merge unregistered accounts.
    – fossfreedom
    Sep 1, 2013 at 19:15

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I've had the same problem. There were no fonts visible in sites like Facebook, Hotmail... I managed to solve the problem the following way:

  • Firefox → Preferences... → Content → Advanced: Uncheck the box that allows other programs to choose the fonts for the page.

It's not the best solution, but however it works... I guess it's a bug with Firefox 30.0 - I hadn't any problem with Firefox 29... (I've noticed this problem after I updated Firefox to version 30.0 and LibreOffice to version 4.2.4.2)

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I did not know what caused this problem, but I solved it by simply copying fonts folder from Xubuntu which I had in another partition to Ubuntu. These folders are at /usr/share/fonts

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