No fonts in Mozilla Firefox in Ubuntu. Text disappeared?

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No textThe 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.
The answer was on the Ubuntu forum in a 2008 post. How funny, but only after it was solved.