[CentOS] what does firefox have against sans-serif

[Liam O'Toole]

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?

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Liam