No fonts in Mozilla Firefox in Ubuntu. Text disappeared?
Written 40 weeks 4 days ago by SharmWeb. Last edit 40 weeks 1 day ago.
The strangest thing happened the other day. In Chrome everything was fine, but in Mozilla Firefox all text blanked out on any given webpage. I upgraded to Firefox 4, but noop, nothing changed.
It turned out I had manually added some fonts to the root/usr/share/fonts/truetype directory. To solve it:
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The strangest thing happened the other day. In Chrome everything was fine, but in Mozilla Firefox all text blanked out on any given webpage. I upgraded to Firefox 4, but noop, nothing changed.It turned out I had manually added some fonts to the root/usr/share/fonts/truetype directory. To solve it:
- Open the terminal
- cd /usr/share/fonts
- sudo chmod -R 755 *
- Refresh the webpage in Firefox and everything should be turned normal.



