When loading certain websites the text appears funny and I get these strange large black page breaks. Does anyone know what might cause this?

Here's a screen cap of what I normally see: http://i41.tinypic.com/4tq52a.jpg
I can see websites that appear like that on Chrome as they should appear, but for some reason Firefox gives me all of that mess. It happens a lot on blogs, if that makes a difference. Also, I tried disabling my add-ons, but to no avail. Anyone got any ideas?

That is a font problem. Firefox can't find the font and shows little boxes with the hex code instead.
Try to set the pref <b>gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.use_gdi_table_loading</b> to false on the <b>about:config</b> page.
To open the <i>about:config</i> page, type <b>about:config</b> in the location (address) bar and press the "<i>Enter</i>" key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website.<br />
If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.<br />
*Use the Filter bar at to top of the about:config page to locate a preference more easily.
*Preferences that have been modified show as bold (user set).
*Preferences can be reset to the default via the right-click context menu if they are user set
*Preferences can be changed via the right-click context menu: Modify (String or Integer) or Toggle (Boolean)

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