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CSS3 Fontface not working in Mac Firefox 3.6.23

October 10th, 2011 | by | apple products, web development

Oct
10

I just got done building the layout and wireframe for a new website, and when I checked it in Firefox 3.6.23 on my Mac I noticed that the CSS3 property for Font-Face was not working at all, but it worked on my Linux computer and my Win Virtual Boxes, After digging around in Firefox’s setting I found a interesting setting in Firefox Lion. If you have found this run into this problem your-self check your Firefox settings, by going to

Font Face Fix for Mac Lion

Follow the Arrows to fix your Fontface problems in Mac Lion



about:config

In the URL bar, Then In the Filter paste this code in and see if your Fonts are disabled


gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled

In Mac Lion I found I had a extra setting named


gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled.lion

Which was set to off by Default even thou the first setting was set to on. As soon as I switched this setting to on my Font-face property’s started working again.

Just a quick tip that I found, not sure if anyone else has noticed this yet or not.

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  • Anonymous

    Shawn, thanks for the fix.  Do you know if there is a developer work around?  How do we make sure that people are viewing the sites we create correctly?

  • Anonymous

    I haven’t found a work around for this problem,  Since it only seems to effect Firefox 3.6.23, I personally do a version check an suggest a browser update to the latest browser.

  • http://www.yoitsben.com/ Ben Linero

    Thanks.