Firefox’s Problems Solved
March 2nd, 2010Thought I’d make a quick post, as I haven’t in quite some time, but also to serve as a means of information for people who might suffer the same problem I had.
Should read "What’s happening?"
Basically what happened was one day, for seemingly no reason, certain text areas in Mozilla Firefox would cease to display correctly, and would instead come up as gibberish. I thought it might have to do with the character encoding I was using in Firefox, but it turned out not to be the case. After some longs weeks of having to copy the strange text into Notepad to find out what it said, I found a solution:
In some web design experiment, I decided to download the font, Helvetica*. For whatever reason, this was throwing off some parts of text in Firefox (particularly text inside <h1> tags, iirc). After removing the font from my computer, the problem ceased to exist.
If anyone else has encountered this problem (perhaps you’ve come from a Google search upon this page), or if you know why having Helvetica in my Fonts folder would cause this problem in Firefox, let me know in the Comments section.
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