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Firefox font too bold

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Does anyone know how to make the font in Firefox similar to Chrome? I've reinstalled couple of times. Seems the font is too thick and bold compared to Chrome. Screenshots attached - Chrome on left and Firefox on right

Does anyone know how to make the font in Firefox similar to Chrome? I've reinstalled couple of times. Seems the font is too thick and bold compared to Chrome. Screenshots attached - Chrome on left and Firefox on right
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Hi

I think that this support article should help:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-fonts-and-colors-websites-use

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Does Google Chrome use the same font as Firefox ?

You can right-click and select "Inspect" to open the built-in Inspector with this element selected.

You can check in the Rules tab in the right panel in the Inspector what font-family is used for selected text. You can check in the Fonts tab in the right panel in the Inspector what font is actually used because Firefox might be using a different font than specified by the website.

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example https://www.paypal.com/au/home

i've attached chromepaypal.png and firefoxpaypal.png. The Firefox one is more bolder than Chrome

When i use Font Inspector to inspect "For You" heading https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/font-inspector-webextension/

Using Font Inspecter Addon in Chrome

Info for selected <a> element:
 (I): — — — — — — —
 font size: 14px
 font style: normal
 font weight: 700
 font variant: normal
 font family: PayPalSansSmall-Regular, \Helvetica Neue\, Arial, sans-serif
 rendered font family (estimated): PayPalSansSmall-Regular
 (II): — — — — — — —
 font color: rgb(44, 46, 47)
 background color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)
 (III): — — — — — — —
 text align: left
 text indent: 0px
 line height: 37.8px
 text transform: uppercase
 text decoration: none solid rgb(44, 46, 47)
 (IV): — — — — — — —
 HTML element id: N/A
 HTML element class: pypl-header__subnav-control, main-link, pypl-header__subnav-control--is-active, pypl-header__subnav-control--is-highlighted
 HTML element type: a
 frameId: 0
 tabId: 2
 title: Pay Online, Send Money or Set Up a Merchant Account - PayPal Australia
 top: https://www.paypal.com/au/home

Font Inspecter Addon in Firefox

  Info for selected <a> element:
 (I): — — — — — — —,
 font size: 14px,
 font style: normal,
 font weight: 700,
 font variant: normal,
 font family: PayPalSansSmall-Regular, Helvetica Neue, Arial, sans-serif,
 rendered font family (estimated): PayPalSansSmall-Regular,
 (II): — — — — — — —,
 font color: rgb(44, 46, 47),
 background color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0),
 (III): — — — — — — —,
 text align: left,
 text indent: 0px,
 line height: 37.8px,
 text transform: uppercase,
 text decoration: rgb(44, 46, 47),
 (IV): — — — — — — —,
 HTML element id: N/A,
 HTML element class: pypl-header__subnav-control, main-link, pypl-header__subnav-control--is-active, pypl-header__subnav-control--is-highlighted,
 HTML element type: a,
 (V): — — — — — — —,
 tab id: 2,
 tab height: 968px,
 tab width: 1920px,
 tab domain: www.paypal.com,
 tab title: Pay Online, Send Money or Set Up a Merchant Account - PayPal Australia