Firefox 41 Will Download Symbol Fonts Even When Disabled

Will ship in September, 2015.

If you are a web developer, then Font Awesome or other symbol fonts should sound familiar to you, especially of some of your visitors have complained about the troubled icons. As for everyone else, here is a neat new feature that should ensure better compatibility and web site rendering.

Have you ever seen small rectangles instead of icons? If so, then you are one the affected people and starting with Firefox 41, the issue should be fixed once and for all as updated browser will downloading web page fonts despite the setting.

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Now, in case you are freaking out, there will be a way to “double disable” the font downloading, which can be done by changing few lines in the about:config area (browser.display.use_document_fonts should be set to 0).

[Via: GHacks]