Firefox 3.6.3 does not properly render certain types of text for me

[Performual]

Certain kinds of text, such as titles or headings, are not rendered properly. Take for example when I visit newegg.com :

[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/newegg12.png[/img]
I can highlight>copy that jumbled text and paste it in a word processor such as MS Word 2007, notepad, or even the URL bar and it will be properly rendered as "Upgrades..." or whatever it's meant to say.

I really don't know how to resolve this and so I've reported my issue to bugzilla, mozilla's bug center. I've gotten one reply, and that person can't seem to replicate the problem for him/herself.

If anyone knows what I can do to fix this, please share your knowledge. Opera is a great browser, but for one reason or another, I'd still like to use Firefox too- without the weird text.

[editline]06:58PM[/editline]

Forgot to mention that I did a clean uninstall and later reinstalled it. I still have the same problem.

[Unreliable]

I suggest you make it a new language.

[CPPNOOB]

Looks fine to me. Maybe your screen is broken.

[i_speel_good]

[QUOTE=CPPNOOB;22037401]Looks fine to me. Maybe your screen is broken.[/QUOTE]
Look at the text above the images in the bottom. Doesn't look fine to me.

[Performual]

I don't think either of these suggestions help. Thanks, but sorry.

[meefy]

Copy and past this in your address bar, and hit enter.

javascript:void(document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].style.font = "2.25em helvetica,arial,sans-serif");

See if this fouls things up on other sites.

[Danneh]

Do you have the correct encoding? I think unicode is the correct one

[Performual]

[QUOTE=Morphology53;22046936]Copy and past this in your address bar, and hit enter.

javascript:void(document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].style.font = "2.25em helvetica,arial,sans-serif");

See if this fouls things up on other sites.[/QUOTE]

Tried it newegg, gizmodo, facepunch, youtube, and it "fouled" up the text.

On other sites like hotmail.com and adorama.com, it just changed the font or made it larger. Either-or I guess judging from your code thingy.

Thanks for helping Morph.

[BmB]

[QUOTE=djjkxbox;22052106]Do you have the correct encoding? I think unicode is the correct one[/QUOTE]

Actually ISO 8859-1 and "Automatic" on is. But yeah, definitely an encoding error.

[meefy]

Open the Control Panel, Open Fonts, and delete the helvetica font.

It's a known bug:
[url]http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/89178[/url]
[url]http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/301756[/url]
[url]http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/651339[/url]

[Performual]

Ah jeez now I feel bad because it was known. Thanks a lot Morph for taking your time to help.

[editline]11:46PM[/editline]

I deleted helvetica, ran ccleaner just in case, but the problem is still there.

[editline]11:49PM[/editline]

I'm guessing it's not just helvetica that's causing the problem? I thought this would be the end of it because I did, in fact, recently install helvetica. Removing it didn't seem to make a difference. Maybe I didn't remove the right things.

[Performual]

[B]Fixed it:[/B]

Interestingly, it was a helvetica font that was disguised with a chinese name. It said it was last modified in 1991, so I clicked it out of curiosity, and low and behold it was actually helvetica in disguise.

Spy font

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