Website unusable in FF133 after recent update

danieleb765
In a recent site update, you apparently updated the CSS to favor “Lucida Grande” in the fonts. This has made the site unreadable on my (Win10, fully updated) PC on Firefox. I can see headings, but all body text is rendered as thorn symbols. To read anything I have to open the inspector and change the @media screen: body font property to Lucida. This then breaks the headers. Chrome works, but I loathe Chrome.

Everything was exactly as expected up until that style update. I’ll send you virtual chocolate cookies if you can roll it back or update it to fix or tell me somewhere I can download a free font that will make it see FF as one of the cool kids again.
  • adamsmith
    edited 24 days ago
    That suggests some broken font stuff on your computer I think. As you can see, the way the CSS is written, it cascades down to Verdana (which is installed by default on Windows machines) and then generic sans-serif if Lucida Grande isn't installed, and that works for me (W11, FF133)

    (Edit: I also don't think Lucida Grande is a recent change. I see that in the WayBackmachine >10 years back, though I might misunderstand how they handle CSS archiving)
  • danieleb765
    Right you are. I was all set to argue the point because it worked fine in Chrome, but then I got an HTML email that showed the same symptoms. Uninstalling Lucida Grande didn't seem to help; some sort of corruption on the OS level? I finally beat it into submission by adding a substitution (Lucida Sans Unicode for Lucida Grande) in userContent.css in my browser profile. Never settle for a scalpel when a sledgehammer will do.

    Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Virtual cookies all around!
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