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I would be interested in reading more about how you prevent web designers from changing the page's font. I used about:config on Firefox to stop fonts from downloading, but that made it hard for me to use github.com and one or 2 other sites because those sites use a font to render icons that are essential parts of the UI.



In Firefox: Options – Language and Appearance – Fonts and Colors – Advanced… – Disable “Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above”

It's what I've been using for months now (and I also block web fonts using Firefox Focus' extension in iOS/iPadOS Safari). And that's even though I'm a typography geek, and have bought fonts from Matthew Butterick (the author of the submitted article).

Looks weird for a day or two, after that you never miss web fonts.

Make sure to select a nice default font (for example, Verdana is nice, but I'm German, and Verdana does not have a closing quotation mark for German – it's another one than is in use in English).

My setting is Constantia as default font and serif, Segoe UI as sans-serif, and Consolas as monospace.


I remember some trouble with Github many years ago, but it uses inline SVGs for icons now.


That works on desktop, but not on Android. Any clue how to get Firefox on Android to obey about:config fot settings would be very welcome.


In ublock you can block remote fonts globally, then toggle them on for sites that need it.


Been an option in the preferences since the days of Netscape, perhaps Mosaic.




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