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hijacked font

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I downloaded hot coffee font & it took over arial. I can't delete. All text in ff is hot coffee font. Default setting is set to comic ms sans. What can I do?

I downloaded hot coffee font & it took over arial. I can't delete. All text in ff is hot coffee font. Default setting is set to comic ms sans. What can I do?

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I would try doing this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-fonts-and-colors-websites-use#w_custom-fonts

I'm also a mac user and this worked for me when I had this problem.

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My preference font is set at Comic MS sans, but most webpages still come up with all hot coffee font displayed. Hot coffee has hijacked my arial font, even though I've deleted all hot coffee fonts from my computer. Its like its attached itself to it. It appears in Word & Excel too. ANy other advice?

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Hmm,

Have you tried rebooting your computer to make sure everything you've uninstalled has uninstalled correctly?

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

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Yep I rebooted my computer. Same result.

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I also deleted any duplicated fonts.

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I went to both links above and neither of them gave me specific directions on HOW to get rid of this parasite font. Help!

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You can do a font test to see if you can identify this font.