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FireFox font is unreadable and thin

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Certain fonts are displayed not as what I set them to in Firefox's settings.

At first, I thought it was a windows OS font related issue- it's not.

I've followed everything here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1323130 (The answer support link is inaccessible. But following the answer did not fix my issue.)

Also looked to see if any of my add-ons are affecting it. I've disabled them on the sites (in the screenshot) but the fonts are still displayed as attached. Checked to see if the add-on uBLOCK is disabling remote fonts, that feature is not checked so that's not the issue.

Please help, thank you.

Certain fonts are displayed not as what I set them to in Firefox's settings. At first, I thought it was a windows OS font related issue- it's not. I've followed everything here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1323130 (The answer support link is inaccessible. But following the answer did not fix my issue.) Also looked to see if any of my add-ons are affecting it. I've disabled them on the sites (in the screenshot) but the fonts are still displayed as attached. Checked to see if the add-on uBLOCK is disabling remote fonts, that feature is not checked so that's not the issue. Please help, thank you.
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I FIXED IT!!! I believe it is MY fault for downloading this horrible font for photoshop designs and windows decided to use that font in whatever program it is...

msconfig restart pc to safe mode: minimal

start> run> fonts

delete font

msconfig restart in normal mode

done diddly doo

https://superuser.com/questions/1720867/return-my-helvetica-neue-to-default-windows-10

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Modified by beasther

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See comment 4:

  • 1806270#c4 - Bad font rendering in Firefox 109 on Windows 10

(please do not comment in bug reports
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html
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Modified by cor-el

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cor-el said

See comment 4:
  • 1806270#c4 - Bad font rendering in Firefox 109 on Windows 10
(please do not comment in bug reports
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html
)

I'm on Windows 11 PRO and attempted to do it:

gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.gamma set to my gamma data 2200

did not do anything

Modified by cor-el

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Chosen Solution

I FIXED IT!!! I believe it is MY fault for downloading this horrible font for photoshop designs and windows decided to use that font in whatever program it is...

msconfig restart pc to safe mode: minimal

start> run> fonts

delete font

msconfig restart in normal mode

done diddly doo

https://superuser.com/questions/1720867/return-my-helvetica-neue-to-default-windows-10