Is there a way to find out what font Firefox is using?

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I've got some truly horrible font (or fonts) installed on my system, and Firefox is choosing to use them sometimes.

Now, that's not Firefox's fault for finding these fonts, but I'd like to figure out what they are, so I can uninstall them.

Is there a way to find out, in Firefox, what font it's using for a particular character on the screen?

mvg · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-30 01:27:12Z

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Font Finder Firefox add on saves your time in this issue https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4415/

answered Dec 30, 2010 at 1:27

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David · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-29 19:18:17Z

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Go to Tools -> Options -> Content tab -> Font and Colors section. You will find out what type of font Firefox is using there.

-Hope this helps!

answered Dec 29, 2010 at 19:18

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That's what fonts I'm suggesting that it uses, but webpages are obviously using a lot of fonts not listed there ("Allow pages to choose their own..."). For example, Japanese pages are using at least 3 or 4 different fonts (katakana and hiragana seem to be different fonts, and it looks like it's pulling kanji glyphs from at least 2 different fonts, too), and how would I set kana and kanji fonts, anyway? It only has popups for "Proportional", "Serif", "Sans-serif", and "Monospace", and none of those sound like they apply to non-Latin characters at all.
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Shekhar · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-29 19:29:12Z

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This addon for firefox might solve your issue, it allows you to switch fonts

answered Dec 29, 2010 at 19:29

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