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    From Schugo@schugo@schugo.de to alt.comp.software.firefox on Mon Jan 12 19:54:16 2026
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    Hi!

    almost every day I see a website with a totally broken font like this:

    https://schugo.de/pix/ugly_fonts.png

    I had to install FontReplacer add-on, cuz it's totally mad.

    I use FF 147/Win7.

    Is it missing fonts on Win7 or stupid web developes (esp. MacOS)
    that only test on their own Browser/System????

    ciao..
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  • From Jeff Barnett@jbb@notatt.com to alt.comp.software.firefox on Mon Jan 12 13:12:30 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

    On 1/12/2026 11:54 AM, Schugo wrote:
    Hi!

    almost every day I see a website with a totally broken font like this:

    https://schugo.de/pix/ugly_fonts.png

    I had to install FontReplacer add-on, cuz it's totally mad.

    I use FF 147/Win7.

    Is it missing fonts on Win7 or stupid web developes (esp. MacOS)
    that only test on their own Browser/System????

    ciao..

    Might it be that the web page "programmer" simply has bad taste?
    --
    Jeff Barnett

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  • From Schugo@schugo@schugo.de to alt.comp.software.firefox on Mon Jan 12 21:18:18 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

    On 12.01.2026 21:12, Jeff Barnett wrote:
    On 1/12/2026 11:54 AM, Schugo wrote:
    Hi!

    almost every day I see a website with a totally broken font like this:

    https://schugo.de/pix/ugly_fonts.png

    I had to install FontReplacer add-on, cuz it's totally mad.

    I use FF 147/Win7.

    Is it missing fonts on Win7 or stupid web developes (esp. MacOS)
    that only test on their own Browser/System????

    ciao..

    Might it be that the web page "programmer" simply has bad taste?

    hmm.. or a glitch artist ;)

    ciao..

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  • From Schugo@schugo@schugo.de to alt.comp.software.firefox on Mon Jan 12 21:22:53 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

    On 12.01.2026 21:18, Schugo wrote:
    On 12.01.2026 21:12, Jeff Barnett wrote:
    On 1/12/2026 11:54 AM, Schugo wrote:
    Hi!

    almost every day I see a website with a totally broken font like this:

    https://schugo.de/pix/ugly_fonts.png

    I had to install FontReplacer add-on, cuz it's totally mad.

    I use FF 147/Win7.

    Is it missing fonts on Win7 or stupid web developes (esp. MacOS)
    that only test on their own Browser/System????

    ciao..

    Might it be that the web page "programmer" simply has bad taste?

    hmm.. or a glitch artist ;)

    BTW: in almost 30 years making websites I could not produce such
    a fuxxored font display ;)

    ciao..

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to alt.comp.software.firefox on Mon Jan 12 21:13:59 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

    On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:54:16 +0100, Schugo wrote:

    almost every day I see a website with a totally broken font like this:

    https://schugo.de/pix/ugly_fonts.png

    WasnrCOt sure which one was the problem, so I tried the MDN page. Looked
    fine, even zoomed in or out.

    Of course, this was on a Linux system ...
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  • From Schugo@schugo@schugo.de to alt.comp.software.firefox on Mon Jan 12 22:19:07 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

    On 12.01.2026 22:13, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:
    On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:54:16 +0100, Schugo wrote:

    almost every day I see a website with a totally broken font like this:

    https://schugo.de/pix/ugly_fonts.png

    WasnrCOt sure which one was the problem, so I tried the MDN page. Looked fine, even zoomed in or out.

    Of course, this was on a Linux system ...


    downloadable font: Variations: Required fvar table is missing (font-family: "Inter" style:normal weight:100..900 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/inter-latin.9a3b1bc220d426ef.woff2 downloadable font: Variations: Failed to parse variation region list (font-family: "Inter" style:normal weight:100..900 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/inter-latin.9a3b1bc220d426ef.woff2 downloadable font: GDEF: Invalid item variation store (font-family: "Inter" style:normal weight:100..900 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/inter-latin.9a3b1bc220d426ef.woff2 downloadable font: Variations: Required fvar table is missing (font-family: "Inter" style:normal weight:100..900 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/inter-latin.9a3b1bc220d426ef.woff2 downloadable font: Variations: Failed to parse variation region list (font-family: "Inter" style:normal weight:100..900 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/inter-latin.9a3b1bc220d426ef.woff2 downloadable font: GDEF: Invalid item variation store (font-family: "Inter" style:normal weight:100..900 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/inter-latin.9a3b1bc220d426ef.woff2 downloadable font: Variations: Required fvar table is missing (font-family: "JetBrains Mono" style:normal weight:100..800 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/jetbrains-mono-latin.119994ed445212c7.woff2
    downloadable font: Variations: Failed to parse variation region list (font-family: "JetBrains Mono" style:normal weight:100..800 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/jetbrains-mono-latin.119994ed445212c7.woff2
    downloadable font: GDEF: Invalid item variation store (font-family: "JetBrains Mono" style:normal weight:100..800 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/jetbrains-mono-latin.119994ed445212c7.woff2
    downloadable font: Variations: Required fvar table is missing (font-family: "JetBrains Mono" style:normal weight:100..800 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/jetbrains-mono-latin.119994ed445212c7.woff2
    downloadable font: Variations: Failed to parse variation region list (font-family: "JetBrains Mono" style:normal weight:100..800 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/jetbrains-mono-latin.119994ed445212c7.woff2
    downloadable font: GDEF: Invalid item variation store (font-family: "JetBrains Mono" style:normal weight:100..800 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/jetbrains-mono-latin.119994ed445212c7.woff2
    Content-Security-Policy: The pagerCOs settings blocked the loading of a resource
    (font-src) at data:application/octet-stream;base64,d09rCa because it violates the following directive: rCLfont-src 'self'rCY HTTP
    Content-Security-Policy: The pagerCOs settings blocked the loading of a resource
    (font-src) at data:application/octet-stream;base64,AAErCa because it violates the following directive: rCLfont-src 'self'rCY HTTP

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  • From Schugo@schugo@schugo.de to alt.comp.software.firefox on Mon Jan 12 22:24:30 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

    On 12.01.2026 22:19, Schugo wrote:
    On 12.01.2026 22:13, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:
    On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:54:16 +0100, Schugo wrote:

    almost every day I see a website with a totally broken font like this:

    https://schugo.de/pix/ugly_fonts.png

    WasnrCOt sure which one was the problem, so I tried the MDN page. Looked
    fine, even zoomed in or out.

    Of course, this was on a Linux system ...


    downloadable font: Variations: Required fvar table is missing (font-family: "Inter" style:normal weight:100..900 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/inter-latin.9a3b1bc220d426ef.woff2
    downloadable font: Variations: Failed to parse variation region list (font-family: "Inter" style:normal weight:100..900 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/inter-latin.9a3b1bc220d426ef.woff2
    downloadable font: GDEF: Invalid item variation store (font-family: "Inter" style:normal weight:100..900 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/inter-latin.9a3b1bc220d426ef.woff2
    downloadable font: Variations: Required fvar table is missing (font-family: "Inter" style:normal weight:100..900 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/inter-latin.9a3b1bc220d426ef.woff2
    downloadable font: Variations: Failed to parse variation region list (font-family: "Inter" style:normal weight:100..900 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/inter-latin.9a3b1bc220d426ef.woff2
    downloadable font: GDEF: Invalid item variation store (font-family: "Inter" style:normal weight:100..900 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/inter-latin.9a3b1bc220d426ef.woff2
    downloadable font: Variations: Required fvar table is missing (font-family: "JetBrains Mono" style:normal weight:100..800 stretch:100 src index:0) source:
    https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/jetbrains-mono-latin.119994ed445212c7.woff2
    downloadable font: Variations: Failed to parse variation region list (font-family: "JetBrains Mono" style:normal weight:100..800 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/jetbrains-mono-latin.119994ed445212c7.woff2
    downloadable font: GDEF: Invalid item variation store (font-family: "JetBrains
    Mono" style:normal weight:100..800 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/jetbrains-mono-latin.119994ed445212c7.woff2
    downloadable font: Variations: Required fvar table is missing (font-family: "JetBrains Mono" style:normal weight:100..800 stretch:100 src index:0) source:
    https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/jetbrains-mono-latin.119994ed445212c7.woff2
    downloadable font: Variations: Failed to parse variation region list (font-family: "JetBrains Mono" style:normal weight:100..800 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/jetbrains-mono-latin.119994ed445212c7.woff2
    downloadable font: GDEF: Invalid item variation store (font-family: "JetBrains
    Mono" style:normal weight:100..800 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/jetbrains-mono-latin.119994ed445212c7.woff2
    Content-Security-Policy: The pagerCOs settings blocked the loading of a resource
    (font-src) at data:application/octet-stream;base64,d09rCa because it violates the following directive: rCLfont-src 'self'rCY HTTP
    Content-Security-Policy: The pagerCOs settings blocked the loading of a resource
    (font-src) at data:application/octet-stream;base64,AAErCa because it violates the following directive: rCLfont-src 'self'rCY HTTP

    The Mozilla employee who published such a website is IMHO a fucking idiot!


    ciao..
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to alt.comp.software.firefox on Mon Jan 12 23:08:52 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

    On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:24:30 +0100, Schugo wrote:

    On 12.01.2026 22:13, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

    On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:54:16 +0100, Schugo wrote:

    almost every day I see a website with a totally broken font like
    this:

    https://schugo.de/pix/ugly_fonts.png

    WasnrCOt sure which one was the problem, so I tried the MDN page.
    Looked fine, even zoomed in or out.

    Of course, this was on a Linux system ...

    The Mozilla employee who published such a website is IMHO a fucking
    idiot!

    DonrCOt know about all that techno-crap, all I did was look at the
    appearance of the page, and that was fine.
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to alt.comp.software.firefox on Mon Jan 12 23:14:04 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

    On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:24:30 +0100, Schugo wrote:

    On 12.01.2026 22:19, Schugo wrote:

    downloadable font: Variations: Required fvar table is missing (font-family: >> "Inter" style:normal weight:100..900 stretch:100 src index:0) source:
    https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/inter-latin.9a3b1bc220d426ef.woff2
    downloadable font: Variations: Failed to parse variation region list
    (font-family: "Inter" style:normal weight:100..900 stretch:100 src index:0) >>
    [etc etc]

    DidnrCOt see any such messages in my browser console.

    I would say this is a problem specific to your Windows system.
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  • From Schugo@schugo@schugo.de to alt.comp.software.firefox on Tue Jan 13 00:18:52 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

    On 13.01.2026 00:14, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:
    On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:24:30 +0100, Schugo wrote:

    On 12.01.2026 22:19, Schugo wrote:

    downloadable font: Variations: Required fvar table is missing (font-family: >>> "Inter" style:normal weight:100..900 stretch:100 src index:0) source:
    https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/inter-latin.9a3b1bc220d426ef.woff2
    downloadable font: Variations: Failed to parse variation region list
    (font-family: "Inter" style:normal weight:100..900 stretch:100 src index:0) >>>
    [etc etc]

    DidnrCOt see any such messages in my browser console.

    I would say this is a problem specific to your Windows system.

    no, it's because I use a nightly build with special debug options,
    not shown on official releases.

    ciao..

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  • From Schugo@schugo@schugo.de to alt.comp.software.firefox on Tue Jan 13 00:28:44 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

    On 13.01.2026 00:18, Schugo wrote:
    On 13.01.2026 00:14, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:
    On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:24:30 +0100, Schugo wrote:

    On 12.01.2026 22:19, Schugo wrote:

    downloadable font: Variations: Required fvar table is missing (font-family:
    "Inter" style:normal weight:100..900 stretch:100 src index:0) source:
    https://developer.mozilla.org/static/client/inter-latin.9a3b1bc220d426ef.woff2
    downloadable font: Variations: Failed to parse variation region list
    (font-family: "Inter" style:normal weight:100..900 stretch:100 src index:0)

    [etc etc]

    DidnrCOt see any such messages in my browser console.

    I would say this is a problem specific to your Windows system.

    no, it's because I use a nightly build with special debug options,
    not shown on official releases.

    In chromium no broken fonts - strange!
    4 different old/new Mozilla Browsers -> broken!

    ciao..

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  • From Nobody@jock@soccer.com to alt.comp.software.firefox on Mon Jan 12 15:33:01 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

    On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:18:52 +0100, Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> wrote:
    On 13.01.2026 00:14, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:
    <snip>
    DidnrCOt see any such messages in my browser console.


    no, it's because I use a nightly build with special debug options,
    not shown on official releases.

    Ah, so not 147 as you posted.
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  • From Schugo@schugo@schugo.de to alt.comp.software.firefox on Tue Jan 13 00:37:24 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

    On 13.01.2026 00:33, Nobody wrote:
    On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:18:52 +0100, Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> wrote:

    On 13.01.2026 00:14, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

    <snip>

    DidnrCOt see any such messages in my browser console.



    no, it's because I use a nightly build with special debug options,
    not shown on official releases.


    Ah, so not 147 as you posted.

    yes, 147 nightly.

    146 is the last official release.

    ciao..

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to alt.comp.software.firefox on Tue Jan 13 03:39:57 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

    On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:22:53 +0100, Schugo wrote:

    BTW: in almost 30 years making websites I could not produce such a
    fuxxored font display ;)

    DoesnrCOt look that way on my machine. Is that anybody seeing the same
    screwup on a non-Windows machine?

    Somehow I suspect not ...
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  • From Schugo@schugo@schugo.de to alt.comp.software.firefox on Tue Jan 13 04:55:31 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

    On 13.01.2026 04:39, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:
    On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:22:53 +0100, Schugo wrote:

    BTW: in almost 30 years making websites I could not produce such a
    fuxxored font display ;)

    DoesnrCOt look that way on my machine. Is that anybody seeing the same screwup on a non-Windows machine?

    Somehow I suspect not ...

    yea, looks OK on FF in a Linux kubuntu VM on this system...

    strange.

    ciao..

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  • From Schugo@schugo@schugo.de to alt.comp.software.firefox on Tue Jan 13 05:05:06 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

    gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled false

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to alt.comp.software.firefox on Tue Jan 13 05:20:14 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

    On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 05:05:06 +0100, Schugo wrote:

    gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled false

    But only necessary on Windows, not Linux?
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  • From Schugo@schugo@schugo.de to alt.comp.software.firefox on Tue Jan 13 09:09:58 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

    On 13.01.2026 06:20, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:
    On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 05:05:06 +0100, Schugo wrote:

    gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled false

    But only necessary on Windows, not Linux?

    yes

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