Weird font in Safari NOT Firefox

when I export my iWeb site to my desktop, Safari shows the main page in font NOT like I made in iWeb, but Firefox shows the web page as expected. I took off ALL shadows, all of the words are links to other pages in iWeb.
is there a way to insert a screen grab so you can see what I am talking about?

See my response in your other post. You could publish your site and provide the URL to it. That will give us a lot more to examine.

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Some fonts in Safari not working

After updating to Safari 3.1, I noticed that some fonts in Safari now display as Helvetica fractions. However, when I use Firefox to view the same Web page, they display fine. I am using Suitcase Fusion 12.1.6 and manage Local Fonts. Some of the local fonts do not appear in the preview pane and say they are missing. I have located them and tried to add them (repaired first, all fonts do not need repair) but Suitcase will crash each time I locate the font.
Also, I noticed in Firefox that it is using the same fonts for the default set as Safari. Times & Courier. Yet these fonts aren't missing in Suitcase, so I am not sure what is happening here.

I am using Suitcase Fusion 12.1.6
12.1.7 is the current version. You should probably update.
but Suitcase will crash each time I locate the font.
Either the font is bad, or Suitcase's database is bad. That it tells you local fonts are missing points more towards a problem with Suitcase.
To reset Suitcase, close the application. It will give you a minor warning about available fonts. Click Quit. If you are NOT using Suitcase's vault, in your user account, go to ~/Library/Application Support/Extensis/Suitcase/ and delete the file:
Suitcase Font Database.suitcasevault
In the Preferences folder of your user account, delete the file:
com.extensis.SuitcaseFusion.plist
Relaunch Suitcase. You will need to reset any preferences in the program that you have changed from the defaults. You will also lose any sets you've created.
If you ARE using the vault, following the above steps will cause you to lose all fonts you've added to the vault. If you have backups of all of your fonts, this is no big deal. Otherwise, be forewarned that they will be gone. What you can do is move the database file to the desktop. Then if the problem with Suitcase continues, you've likely eliminated its database as the problem. Then you can quit the app again and move your original database back into the ~/Library/Application Support/Extensis/Suitcase/ folder.
please tell me if I nuke my font caches, how will it affect Suitcase Fusion.
It won't do anything to Suitcase. It doesn't even create them. For the most part, OS X builds your font cache files. If you remove them, the OS will rebuild them when you restart.

Weird font rendering glitch in firefox

Hi all,
When I look at this webpage in Firefox this is what I get:
Notice how every occurrence of "ff" and "ft" look weird.
This is Mozilla Firefox 13.0.1.
System & Xorg info:
knarf ~ > Xorg -version
X.Org X Server 1.12.3
Release Date: 2012-07-09
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 3.4.4-3-ARCH x86_64
Current Operating System: Linux paf 3.4.4-3-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jul 3 14:36:44 UTC 2012 x86_64
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda3 ro
Build Date: 09 July 2012 03:59:39PM
Current version of pixman: 0.26.2
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Font-related installed packages:
knarf ~ > pacman -Qs ttf
local/ttf-dejavu 2.33-3
Font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts with a wider range of characters
local/ttf-freefont 20120503-1
Set of free outline fonts covering the Unicode character set
knarf ~ > pacman -Qs font
local/fontconfig 2.8.0-2
A library for configuring and customizing font access
local/fontforge 20120119-1
Outline and bitmap font editor
local/fontsproto 2.1.2-1
X11 font extension wire protocol
local/freetype2 2.4.10-1
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local/libfontenc 1.1.1-1
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local/libxfont 1.4.5-1
X11 font rasterisation library
local/libxft 2.3.1-1
FreeType-based font drawing library for X
local/ttf-dejavu 2.33-3
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local/ttf-freefont 20120503-1
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local/xorg-bdftopcf 1.0.3-2 (xorg xorg-apps)
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local/xorg-font-util 1.3.0-1 (xorg-fonts xorg)
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local/xorg-font-utils 7.6-3
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local/xorg-fonts-alias 1.0.2-2
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local/xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.4-3 (xorg-fonts xorg)
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ewaller wrote:It is interesting to note those combinations are typographic ligatures. I'll bet two credits that is not a coincidence.
I bet my credits the fault is within the Calibri font.
You can do a font substitution for Calibri. I made the change for all users. Before anyone does this they might check, from the command line, what font is being used for Calibri: 'fc-match Calibri'
In /etc/fonts/conf.avail/ I added the file, 39-no-calibri.conf:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>

<match target="pattern" name="family">
<test name="family" qual="any">
<string>Calibri</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="family">
<string>Arial</string>
<string>Liberation Sans</string>
<string>sans-serif</string>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
Then I symlinked to it from /etc/fonts/conf.d/:
# pwd
/etc/fonts/conf.d
# ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/39-no-calibri.conf
Finally, I updated the font cache with 'fc-cache -vf'.

CSS styles show in Safari, not Firefox

If you go to
http://www.noematiks.com on a
Mac, the BOLD styles show in Safari but not in Firefox. Not sure
about a Windows machine yet.
The domain nameservers were changed about 32 hours ago and
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Any ideas?

"Mister Mustard" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:31:28 -0400, "P@tty Ayers ~ACE"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Okay, but you should use
, if you want to write good
>>valid
>>code.
>
> I see nothing invalid about applying bold somehow other
than *strong*.
> One long time customer specifically wants some things as
images
> WITHOUT alt text as he doesn't want that text to apply
to search
> engines. Someone else may want to style text bold or
italic, but does
> not want the semantics applied. That is perfectly okay.
Of course it's OK - it's OK to write any kind of code you
want. But if you
want clean, semantically meaningful code, it just makes more
sense to mark
up words that are meant to be emphasized strongly as
 or 
rather than as . doesn't mean
anything, while does.
HTML is a "markup language", meant to "mark up" text in such
a way that
various user agents can display it in meaningful ways. Using
lots of
meaningless tags is never as good code as using semantically
meaningful
tags. Once you used the semantically meaningful tag, you can
always
determine how it's displayed by applying CSS. Conveniently
enough, just
about all browsers display in boldface, so
there's usually no need
to apply CSS to is.
It's one thing if you just don't care about clean code - then
it's all a
moot point. But it's funny that people do that - replace
 and 
with spans which they then style as italic and bold - because
they think
it's *better* code because they're using CSS. That's
completely backwards.
Having said that, I truly don't care what kind of code you or
the original
poster write. Do whatever you want and have fun, and/or get
the job done.
I'm all for that. I was just commenting on what semantically
correct HTML
is.
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Animation of multiple background image positions via keyframes works in Chrome & Safari, not Firefox.

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If I make either one of the following changes, the stutter in FF resolves:
• Limit `background-repeat` to `repeat-x` or to `repeat-y`.
• Remove one of the two animated backgrounds.
So it seems FF can't handle the continuous animation of two backgrounds that each have background-repeat, whereas Chrome and Safari can.
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Try posting at the Web Development / Standards Evangelism forum at MozillaZine. The helpers over there are more knowledgeable about web page development issues with Firefox. 
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=25 
You'll need to register and login to be able to post in that forum.

Youtube videos only open with quicktime--small screen/no audio. Flash works with Safari, not Firefox.

I've updated flash, reset Firefox, restarted Mac. Youtube videos will not load with Flash. They open with Quicktime in a 1x2 inch box of low res images with no audio.

Open up your preferences/Options and open up applications. From here check the preferences for youtube files. In about:permissions you can check the preferences for youtube.com as well.

In mail how do I set my browser to safari not firefox?

In mail how do I sent my browser to go to safari?

Open Safari > Preferences > General tab, and select Safari as your default browser. Mail will pick that setting up.

Mac compatible internet browsers ,not safari - not firefox . By colombia ?

Hi
My buddy said a download from ? Columbia - colomia has a great browser ?? I cant find it . Anyone have a clue ??
Thanks HK

I never seen one by Columbia, but maybe this page might point to what you are looking for:
http://darrel.knutson.com/mac/www/browsers.html

Fonts Do Not Display Correctly in Safari and Firefox

Certain fonts do not display smoothly in Safari and Firefox. They appear to have little pieces of the letters missing. I'm sure others have experienced this problem before but I could not find how to fix this. On the Apple Discussions the fonts look fine... on Google for example, they look messed up. I do not know specifically which font(s) are displayed weird but it happens frequently. This happens in Safari and Firefox on my MacPro and MacBookPro. Is there a setting to fix this?
Thanks,
-flash

Hello Flash, welcome to Apple discussions; )
Look for Helvetica Fractions and Times Phonetic Fonts, if you have them,
they can be the usual suspects.
Check the Text encoding in both Safari & FF, under the "View" menu.
In System preferences-> Personal (top section) in Appearance tab->
on the last portion of the panel Font smoothing Style: set that to Automatic
If those don't help, see this users tip excellent article Kurt Lang's ~ Font Management in Mac OS X
Look into this application to find any corrupt font[s]Font Finagler
Good luck, let us know how you fare.
Eme'~{)
edited by: Eme

Dreamweaver text looks fine in Safari but not Firefox NEED HELP!!!

Dreamweaver text looks fine in Safari but not Firefox, all my text goes out of alignment and the fonts look like different sizes. Please let me know your thoughts. Here is a link to the page I'm having problems with. http://www.alexandrasantibanez.com/bio.html

I had the same problem for days what a waste of time trying
to figure out code... the code was fine. I was running flash player
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Safari (nor Firefox) will not open eBay...

This is so weird!
I have a G4 laptop, less than one year old. Has worked fine since I bought it in December 2005. Then 2 weeks ago, ONLY Safari started to not "remember" my password for eBay, that had been added to my Autofill preferences months before.
Today, I was online working in eBay, went to do some errands, and shut off the computer. When I came back home and turned on the computer, I tried to connect to eBay again, but now I get an error saying "Safari can not connect to the server." I can select any other web site and have no problem accessing - just not eBay.
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Tried to connect with Firefox, same no connect.
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John
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Another suggestion - unplug your router. Wait a few minutes. Plug-in. Restart Safari or Firefox.

Weird fonts with latest Freetype2 and Firefox

This is the weirdness I have
And this is my fonts.conf that I don't want to edit if possible... I like hintslight
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
<const>hintslight</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
<bool>true</bool>
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Thank you for advices!
I did not try to downgrade freetype, but I guess Microsoft fonts look good with older versions of freetype because there is BYTECODE_INTERPRETER enabled. Here is quote from SuSE documentation:
In order to get a good rendering of the MS TrueType Core Fonts, the BYTECODE_INTERPRETER setting should be enabled in freetype2. The freetype people do recommend not to use the bytecode interpreter anymore in favor of their auto-hinting code. But while it is true that you will achieve good rendering with most of the free fonts, this is quite ugly for the MS TrueType Core Fonts.
Well.. I do not want to enable features that are not recommended by developers :-)
What about antialiasing - I do not want to enable it for small font sizes. And, of course, antialiasing is the thing that was invented not for fixing broken fonts rendering.
I decided to replace Tahoma with Verdana everywhere to solve this problem :-) Unfortunately, I coud not do this with fontconfig - debug output from freetype shows this font list after replacement:
"Verdana"(w) "Times New Roman"(s) "Thorndale AMT"(w) "serif"(s) ""(s)
Note letter "w" after Verdana. I do not know what these letters mean, let's suppose 'w' is for 'weak' and 's' is for 'strong'. Firefox (or freetype) ignores 'weak' fonts when there are 'strong' fonts in the list. And all substituted fonts always have 'weak' marking... Thus, Firefox displays Times New Roman (or any font that was set as default in Firefox) instead of Verdana.
The final solution for me was to take fontforge, make a copy of Verdana and rename this copy to Tahoma. Now I have Tahoma replaced with nice rendered Verdana everywhere
But the question is still open - is it possible to take broken Tahoma and make same looking font that would not be broken?

Why does goolgeearth work with Safari & Chrome but not Firefox

When in firefox using Google maps and click on "EARTH" I receive a window indicating that to use 3D I need to install 21.0 Google Earth Plug-in with a "Download" option to click on. Note: Firefox 21.0 and MAC OS 10.7.5 have all current software updates installed. Safari & Chrome do not request for any plug-ins and 3D Earth option works fine. ANY HELP?
PS. my MAC does have an Intel HD Graphics 3000 installed but my MAC, Safari & Chrome work fine.

JKELLETT, That initially happen to me also. When you go to dolinsky296's suggested website https://www.google.com/earth/explore/products/plugin.html I saw "Download plug-in" box in the middle of the globe. When I click it the download executed but the plug-in never got installed. Then I clicked on "Download Google Earth" in the ''upper right corner'' of the website and life was good. Google Earth now works in Firefox.

When I convert my pdf doc to word, the fonts go really weird and it also puts some text into boxes. when I try to select the test and change the font, it does not change it properly?

When I convert my pdf doc to word, the fonts go really weird and it also puts some text into boxes. when I try to select the text and change the font, it does not change it properly? This is making it impossible to amend.

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Please let us know how it goes.
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This is my first post to the forum. I've been directed here because I'm having issues with video streaming/playback (in particular, YouTube) on the Safari and Firefox browsers on my Mac. First, a little bit of information:
My computer:
I have a 2012 iMac with a 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7 processor, 32 GB of memory and a 3TB Apple "Fusion" solid state hard drive. The software version my Mac is currently running is 10.9.4, on the Mavericks OS, as shown in the subject box.
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I've noticed, in the past week or so, that video streaming and playback, on YouTube in particular, are either (a) slow or (b) not loading whatsoever. In YouTube, three things become apparent almost immediately: (1) the video (advert or no advert) simply does not load, with a black screen that turns into a grainy screen after a while with the message "An Error Occurred;" (2) the suggested videos on the side panel (i.e., to the right) do not load properly. The thumbnails of the videos simply do not load; and finally, (3) the comments also appear to experience issues from loading. I've attached screenshots to document this.
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So, What have I done about it?
Everything I can do, to be honest. I've:
(1) Checked preferences in Safari (i.e., plugins are installed correctly)
(2) Cleared Cache in Safari
(3) Deleted "All Site Data and Settings" in the Flash Player section of my System Preferences
(4) Uninstalled Adobe Flash Player completely
(5) Reinstalled Adobe Flash Player
(6) Contacted Apple
(7) Checked Preferences in Safari again (i.e., plugins are installed correctly)
(8) Cleared Cache in Safari again
(9) Reset Safari
(10) Deleted "All Site Data and Settings" in the Flash Player section of my System Preferences
(11) Uninstalled Adobe Flash Player
(12) Undertook a "Clean Install" of Adobe Flash Player, following instructions
And alas, I'm in the forum! May I also add, that I have also scanned my hard drive for any corruption that may be present, generating a negative result. I just do not know what to do at this stage. I've done everything I have knowledge of in trying to resolve this issue.
ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Kieran

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