Why does Firefox ask me always for permission to use some obscure fonts?

Why does Firefox always ask for permission to use some obscure fonts?
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== A few weeks ago

Yeah the whole "blame the OS" thing is a red herring. What the hell is Firefox doing looking on my external drives in the first place? It asks permission to use a font on another drive, but what else is it looking at outside of the Applications folder where it should know enough to mind its own business?

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