Strange Rendering of Fonts in Firefox 3
Jun 25, 2008
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Firefox 3 was having some font rendering issues on my machine. Certain web sites were displaying a wierd bold looking font in place of the default font described in the CSS. After doing some searching around the internet I found out the issue.

Early in the year I had installed Adobe Type Manager and added a bunch of Helvetica Postscript Type-1 fonts. These were for some reason being used as Firefox’s default font. Removing them from the system fixed the issue.