Font in firefox; now uses tahoma?

[Reid Rivenburgh]

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Reid Rivenburgh <reidr at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Steven Stern
> <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com> wrote:
>> On 04/03/2011 11:41 AM, Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
>>> It looks like a recent update to wine installed a wine-tahoma-fonts
>>> package.  Now a lot of web sites are using tahoma by default instead
>>> of my preferred font, liberation sans.  I could remove the tahoma
>>> package, but yum also wants to remove wine-fonts, which might be bad.
>>> Does anyone have a solution for firefox?  Maybe an entry in
>>> userContent.css?  Or should I just go ahead and remove the wine font
>>> packages?  TIA.
>>>
>>> Reid
>>
>> In FF, PREFERENCES -> GENERAL lets you set fonts.
>
> Hi Steve.  Unfortunately, a lot of web pages set their own fonts, and
> it seems many request tahoma before falling back on something like
> generic sans.  If I disallow web pages to choose their own fonts, then
> my setting will take effect, but I'm afraid a lot of web sites will be
> ugly with my chosen font.  If I could somehow map tahoma to liberation
> sans, then I think the problem would be solved....

I found one solution.  If you install the Stylish extension and the
Font Styler script from userstyles.org, you can specify a global font
family (and size) to use for all sites.  The script actually specifies
tahoma, which is exactly what I don't want, but I changed it to sans
and all seems to be well.  (I also commented out the size spec since I
don't want to force all text to be one size.)  Hope this helps
someone....

Reid