Tumblr breaks advanced font settings in Firefox, all Win and Mac versions

tumblr.com and tumblr.com/dashboard do not support, or break, the ability to choose your own fonts in Firefox. The problem affects Firefox 12-14 on Windows OS, and may also affect Firefox for the Mac.
The problem: unchecking the option "allow pages to choose their own fonts" does not produce the expected result; the user font settings are ignored by tumblr. There is already extensive documentation of the problem in the forums including screen shots and font info.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/932614?s=font+override+ignored+by+website&r=2&as=s
The problem is easy to recreate.
The mystery is: how is tumblr screwing up ''do/do not allow pages to choose their own fonts'' in Firefox? Is it a problem in CSS? Something else?

I can make Firefox use the selected default font on Linux, so it is possible.
Firefox uses Nimbus Sans L Regular instead of Helvetica
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbus_Sans
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica

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