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My Firefox doesn't show text on some sites, such as Google:

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I use Firefox 29 and Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr).

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  • Are you using Ambiance the default theme?
    – JoKeR
    Jun 7, 2014 at 16:47
  • Yes, I am using default theme Jun 7, 2014 at 16:49
  • When did this start to happen? Did you try to reset your firefox profile help>troubleshooting info>reset firefox
    – JoKeR
    Jun 7, 2014 at 16:51
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    go to browser settings as in edit>preferences>content>advanced and uncheck the box that allows other programs to choose the fonts for the page and use the fonts that I choose.
    – JoKeR
    Jun 7, 2014 at 17:01
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    I think even better solution is to repair your system fonts, just do sudo apt-get install --reinstall --purge fontconfig fontconfig-config It helped me.
    – Yrogirg
    Oct 24, 2017 at 15:58

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We happened to provide the solution this way:

Go to browser settings as in edit>preferences>content>advanced and uncheck the box that allows other programs to choose the fonts for the page and use the fonts that I choose.

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  • as an alternative one may try to repair system fonts with sudo apt-get install --reinstall --purge fontconfig fontconfig-config It solved the issue for me.
    – Yrogirg
    Oct 24, 2017 at 16:02
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    This is a poor solution, as one usually wants the website to be able to choose fonts. Sometimes the fonts are symbols, and without them the webpage is ugly / unreadable / etc.
    – Bach
    Nov 19, 2017 at 15:05

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