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I hadn’t thought about fonts, since only Firefox was displaying this behavior. The answer as to why Firefoxs release cycle is shortened: Mozilla love cakes.
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#Firefox text encoding windows#
Once I opened the Fonts folder in Windows Explorer and moved HELV.TTF to the desktop, the page immediately began rendering correctly. Type or paste in the text you want to HTML encode, then press the 'Encode' button, or read a brief explanation of the process of HTML encoding.
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Some program I used installed a copy of the Helvetica font, and that was rendering the page all screwy. Thankfully, a kind soul over at MozillaZine’s Firefox Support forums pointed me in the direction of my installed fonts. I tried completely uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox (including deleting any leftover files and folders, in addition to checking the “Remove my Firefox personal data and customizations” option). I loaded up the page in Firefox’s “safe mode”. Check 'Detect UTF-8' to try UTF-8 (international standard encoding) first and fall back to. Set the default encoding in the 'Encoding' text box, which is often the standard encoding of your country/language (e.g. I disabled my Kaspersky Antivirus on the off chance that it was somehow messing with Firefox. Note: Firefox 57 has a bug that prevents this extension from working. I played with the character encodings and I made sure that the server was passing the page as TEXT/HTML and not TEXT/PLAIN. I troubleshot the issue as thoroughly as I could. Interestingly, if I highlighted the “gibberish text” and right-clicked on it, the proper text would displayed in the context menu (i.e. Here’s an example:Īs you can see from the screencap, only the headline was affected. On around 10% of the sites I’d visit, the headline would be gibberish, as if the page had been encoded incorrectly. Ever since upgrading to Firefox 3.0 back in June of this year, I’ve had a bizarre problem with the browser.