text does not display in address bar or any windows I open
Text does not display when typing in address bar. When I open a window (eg Edit > Preferences) no text is displayed within that either.
Problem has persisted through Ubuntu 12.04 (possibly 11.10) to 13.04. Has also remained after re-installs, both through use of Software Centre, and through Terminal commands, and after running purge of all firefox content. Running Firefox as root using gksu command also doesnt help.
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hello, please try to load firefox in safemode once, then go to preferences > advanced general & disable hardware acceleration and see if this can address the issue...
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Apologies, already tried that and forgot to mention, still get no text so cannot do anything from there. Pretty sure it has never been enabled though. Example of what I see included...
Ok, ran in safe mode through terminal
(firefox:4827): Gtk-WARNING **: Default font does not have a positive size
How can I change the default font without using the GUI (because I cannot read anything in the windows)
Or maybe what is the default font so I can check on that?
You can do a font test to see if you can identify corrupted font(s).
Have finally solved, 1st checked default system fonts available using unity-tweak Then went to ~.mozilla/firefox and found prefs.js file, deleted everything to do with fonts and families, saved and restarted.
The odd thing is how this file persisted despite removing and purging firefox.