So, I’ve been having this problem for quite sometime now.  And for the longest time I have ignored it.  Today though I just have had enough with saying firefuckit.

So what is this?  Why does it do that?  Well it seems that Mozilla Firefox happens to have a problem with one of the most popular font types in human history.  Helvetica.  See I don’t even have Helvetica installed, at least from what I can tell, anymore – so the problem should of been fixed.  However as you can see, it hasn’t.  WTF? Seriously, one of the most popular browsers in the World has issues with Helvetica! Lame!

Using Firebug I inspected the above element to find that the CSS defining the style was going about it like:

font: blah blah Helvetica, Arial;

All in one line, which shouldn’t be a problem at all.  If I removed the Helvetica from the line, the problem was gone, because well, if I didn’t have Arial installed I’d have issues doing almost anything.

How I solved this temporarily.

Install the plugin Stylish for Firefox. – Here(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108/)

Then install this userstyle (http://userstyles.org/styles/33939)

The userstyle maps Helvetica to use Arial instead.

For me I also had to add a line to that style (@font-face { font-family: ‘Helvetica’; src: local(‘Arial’); }) (capitalization….pft)

I Hope this helps anyone else having this issue – and I hope the people on the FF team at Mozilla decide to fix this problem…

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