Changing fonts in firefox for XP

[Kimosabe]

Hey, I've noticed some of my mac wielding friends having some spiffy looking fonts inside of mozilla, wondering if this was possible on XP aswell? I mean to actually read websites in a different font, maybe handwritten style font instead of the square boring default font. Now, I have downloaded alot of different chinese fonts and installed them. I can use them in word no problem, but when i try them in mozilla can't get it to work. I know Tools-options-content there is a possibility to set fonts, yet I can't get it to work. My font shows up as ???? in the font selector in firefox (shows up with chinese characters in wordpad), yet doesn't work on web pages. Does this mean that the font is too "out there" to work on firefox? I tried googling this but only got a gazillion pages showing how to get chinese fonts in the first place, no good pages about actually changing to different fonts. Any help appreciated, especially step by step guide as I'm maybe abit dense:P

[YuehanHao]

Kimosabe,

You are on the right track, and have even noted that Firefox can't display font names that are in Chinese characters. Changing font names can be a true pain in the neck that I don't want to go into here; I found it much easier to search for some with English names and use those (e.g., http://www.sinosplice.com/chinese/fonts/ -- hope you don't mind the bad language -- the fonts there are really not f'in bad!).

But understand there is no reason you can't use a font with a Chinese name in Firefox. Firefox displays each character of the Chinese-named font as a question mark, but you can select the ????? font and use it just as any named font. I have done this myself. Yet there is likely to be a problem, for example, if you have five or ten Chinese-named fonts that are all five characters long. Firefox is going to pick one based on its inscrutable internal workings, and odds are it will not be the one you like best. A path-of-least-resistance solution is to delete the less-liked fonts and force ????? to be your favorite 5-character Chinese font. You could also go through and try to rename the font, which is too complicated for me to delve into. In any case, until Firefox recognizes Chinese-named fonts you will need to come up with some kind of work around.

So give that a try, and maybe go into the advanced settings, set the options for the various Chinese displays, force websites to use your preferred fonts, etc. Not too hard really.

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