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Incorrect font being randomly shown

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Firefox 7.0.1 seems to randomly be replacing some general site text and any textarea contents with "toms handwritten regular" font on 2 of our macs.

I have inspected with firebug etc and there is definitely no font specified but the page default.

any help would be appreciated

Firefox 7.0.1 seems to randomly be replacing some general site text and any textarea contents with "toms handwritten regular" font on 2 of our macs. I have inspected with firebug etc and there is definitely no font specified but the page default. any help would be appreciated

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You can do a check for corrupted and duplicate fonts and other font issues:

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I checked all involved fonts and no issues, does seem to be an isolated firefox problem

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What happens if you remove or disable the font that Firefox uses?

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Incoherent collection of ascii

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You can do a font test to see if you can identify corrupted font(s).

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a good 2000 to look through but cannot see any problems on either machine.