Upgrade to 10.04 Wrecks Firefox fonts

**strange_cathect** · April 30th, 2010

I'm having a font problem after upgrading to 10.04. For some reason, my firefox fonts are all wrong. If you look at the following attachments, you'll see what I mean. File 1 is Georgia looking fine on Open Office Writer. File 2 is the same font on Firefox, which looks totally wrong.

Ideas?

**tzily** · April 30th, 2010

I'm having the same 'problem'...

**strange_cathect** · May 1st, 2010

Seems like we're the only ones. Does anyone know a fix here? I've played with my font settings until I'm blue in the face, but nothing works.

**Umang** · May 1st, 2010

Have you tried to install mscorefonts?

Code:

sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

**strange_cathect** · May 1st, 2010

I have had them for a long time. On 9.10 the fonts looked basically identical to those in a Windows environment. Now, however, they've been altered after the upgrade to 10.04. Something changed.

**Umang** · May 1st, 2010

Hmm. I thought so too, but didn't really pay much attention to that (got other problems: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9207218) That's wierd though...

**strange_cathect** · May 1st, 2010

GOT IT!

Follow the following steps here.

1. Go to command line and type sudo nautilus. Enter password.
2. Browse to etc/fonts/conf.d.
3. Delete files that begin with a 10 (only two or three)
4. run: dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

After, close firefox and then reopen. My fonts are perfect now.

**traverlaw** · May 4th, 2010

Originally Posted by strange_cathect

GOT IT!

Follow the following steps here.

1. Go to command line and type sudo nautilus. Enter password.
2. Browse to etc/fonts/conf.d.
3. Delete files that begin with a 10 (only two or three)
4. run: dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

After, close firefox and then reopen. My fonts are perfect now.

That did not work.