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Font on certain pages looking really weird

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Basically, font on some certain websites(or parts of websites) looks weird. Ones I've noticed are Wikia, Disquis comments sections and Ebay listings.

I've added screenshots of the problems in action.

Wikia: https://puu.sh/AGfd8/17e252eda9.png

Disquis: https://puu.sh/AGfdK/05b0b86cb1.png

Ebay: https://puu.sh/AGff9/8680c81244.png

Any idea what is causing this?

Basically, font on some certain websites(or parts of websites) looks weird. Ones I've noticed are Wikia, Disquis comments sections and Ebay listings. I've added screenshots of the problems in action. Wikia: https://puu.sh/AGfd8/17e252eda9.png Disquis: https://puu.sh/AGfdK/05b0b86cb1.png Ebay: https://puu.sh/AGff9/8680c81244.png Any idea what is causing this?

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This can happen when Firefox has a problem to access locally installed fonts because of sandbox security issues. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox

You can set this pref to 2 or 1 on the about:config page to lower the sandbox security setting.

security.sandbox.content.level = 1

Close and restart Firefox to make the change effective.

If '1' still doesn't have an effect then try '0' to disable the sandbox.

If this didn't work then undo/reverse the change and reset the pref via the right-click context menu to the default value.

Type about:config<enter> in the address bar. If a warning screen comes up, press the I Accept the Risk button. At the top of the screen is a search bar.