[CentOS] what does firefox have against sans-serif

Sun Apr 24 17:10:38 UTC 2016
Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>

On Sat, 23 Apr 2016, Liam O'Toole wrote:

> On 2016-04-21, Michael Hennebry
> <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
>> I've been struggling to get Firefox to render text in a sans-serif
>> font.  So far, I've only been able to do that by setting the default
>> font as sans-serif.  DejaVu Sans Mono and DajaVu Sans are the only
>> other listed fonts that I'm reasonalbly sure are sans-serif.
>> Helvetica and Arial are not there.
>>
>> sans-serif does work on Konqueror.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to affect the font-family on Firefox 38.7.0 ?
>>
>
> When configuring fonts you are asked if you want to "Allow pages to
> choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above". What did you
> choose?

Thank you.
The option is hidden under an "advanced" button,
but I finally found it.
I changed it to allow.

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