FireFox 2 font problem

2008-03-08

I recently installed the Vista Transformation pack on my XP system, which slowed it down considerably. Naturally, some fonts were changed for title bars of windows and buttons ect. However, ever since I uninstalled it I've had a problem with Fire Fox 2 where websites I've visited in the past had displayed text in the Arial font are now displaying it in some other, weird, and slightly distorted font. I don't know if it has anything to do with character encoding or not, but in Opera I view the exact same websites, and the parts of text are in Arial as they should be, however in Fire Fox they are in a different font, where they've been Arial before. How do I solve this problem? I don't know weather the issue is directly related to the installation of the Vista Transformation Pack, but it's when I noticed the issue started happening, if that helps. It seems to me like a fire fox issue though, rather than a computer/system one, so perhaps there is some option in FireFox that has been overlooked.

Thanks in advance for the help.

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Nutrox · 2008-03-08 #2

Have you tried reinstalling Firefox?

flashkicks · 2008-03-08 #3

Just did that now and it didn't help. However, I don't think it actually uninstalled properly. When I re-downloaded and installed it, all my bookmarks, settings, and add-ons were all in place/installed so Im not sure what happened there, or why they weren't removed too.

Nutrox · 2008-03-08 #4

The only other thing I can suggest would be to uninstall Firefox using the "Add or Remove Programs" utility ( Start » Settings » Control Panel » Add or Remove Programs ) and then delete the actual Firefox folders from the following locations:

C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/Firefox

C:/Documents and Settings/[USERNAME]/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox

C:/Documents and Settings/[USERNAME]/Local Settings/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox

Doing that is entirely up to you though, but Firefox seems to store a hell of a lot of cached data so it might also be storing font information somewhere, and that data could have been screwed up when you installed/uninstalled the Transformation pack. Don't forget that deleting those folders will more than likely delete all of your bookmarks as well, so you might want to export those first.

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	Nutrox 17 Creative Assets	2008-03-08 #2
	Have you tried reinstalling Firefox?

	flashkicks	2008-03-08 #3
	Just did that now and it didn't help. However, I don't think it actually uninstalled properly. When I re-downloaded and installed it, all my bookmarks, settings, and add-ons were all in place/installed so Im not sure what happened there, or why they weren't removed too.

	Nutrox 17 Creative Assets	2008-03-08 #4
	The only other thing I can suggest would be to uninstall Firefox using the "Add or Remove Programs" utility ( Start » Settings » Control Panel » Add or Remove Programs ) and then delete the actual Firefox folders from the following locations: C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/Firefox C:/Documents and Settings/[USERNAME]/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox C:/Documents and Settings/[USERNAME]/Local Settings/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox Doing that is entirely up to you though, but Firefox seems to store a hell of a lot of cached data so it might also be storing font information somewhere, and that data could have been screwed up when you installed/uninstalled the Transformation pack. Don't forget that deleting those folders will more than likely delete all of your bookmarks as well, so you might want to export those first.