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Disabling a specific font in X/Firefox

Asked by wdesmet

I recently came up again on a page that uses a font that really doesn't look nice for some reason or another, in this case the palatino font from texlive-fonts-recommended. I can't really remove the package (as I need the symbol fonts) but I'd like to at least disable this particular font from being used in firefox (and if possible X). I have no idea how to do this though, preferrably in a way that will survive upgrades. Anyone have some pointers?

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Shane Fagan (shanepatrickfagan) said : 		#1

Right click on the desktop and select the font tab.
Change the fonts to what ever you want.

Hope that helps
Shane

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wdesmet (kromagg) said : 		#2

I'm afraid it doesn't. That only allows me to change fonts that are used in window texts and titles but doesn't allow me to set fonts for use inside firefox on web pages. I could in principle force all web pages to only use the fonts I set in firefox (by unchecking the 'allow web pages to choose fonts...' checkbox in the settings) but that would mean no web page can select a different font, while I really only want to keep this one (ugly) font from being used.

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NoBugs! (luke32j) said : 		#3

You could probably change fonts for a certain site with a custom Greasemonkey script.
Maybe one like this?
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30470
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/26581

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