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bold and italic text not rendered

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italic and bold text is not rendered bu Firefox 45.0b3. I have this problem when visiting Wikipedia pages that uses <b> and <i> tags.

italic and bold text is not rendered bu Firefox 45.0b3. I have this problem when visiting Wikipedia pages that uses &lt;b&gt; and &lt;i&gt; tags.

Modified by cor-el

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Did this work in 45b1 and 45b2?

Did you use the Inspector to see what style rules are applied?

You can right-click and select "Inspect Element" to open the Inspector (3-bar Menu button or Tools > Web Developer) with this element selected. You can check the font used for selected text in the Font tab in the right pane of the Inspector.

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Apparently The problem is not only with and . The font used is sans-serif.

I don't know if it works with 45b1 or 45b2. I know that I noticed the problem with 44.

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Did you install the beta versuion to check if that fixes the problem?

Are the font-weight and font-style properties adjusted (i.e. the tags are recognized)?

You can try different default fonts and temporarily disable website fonts to test the selected default font.

  • Edit > Preferences > Content : Fonts & Colors > Advanced
  • [ ] "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above"
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I have made an error, the used font is DejaVuSans-Oblique system, Used as: "DejaVu Sans". I was looking at the computed tab.

The are the font-weight and font-style properties in the computed tab.

I changed the the font & colors preferences (I unselected the Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above option) and still have the same problem.

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The italic fonts were missing from my system. I have installed them and it solved my problem.

I don't know why Chrome rendered the text.