528803 - Doesn't download a TTF font anymore specified in @font-face directive

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kai Jäger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5

I am using font-face for quite a while now. Works brilliant in Opera10/Safari4/IE/FireFox3.5.

Until recently. FireFox does not attempt to download the font any longer as a check with LivehttpHeaders showed. The other browsers are still fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Well, looking at the URL, that's it.



Of course this is only a simplified test page. For us font embedding is really essential as we support a programming language that does not use keywords but special symbols. 

See 
http://aplwiki.com/AplCharacters

Comment 1

[John Daggett (:jtd)]

Works for me.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ja; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5

The URL page loads the font and renders it.  Not seeing a problem here.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.13 or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

You can also try to reproduce in Firefox 4 Beta 8 or later, there are many improvements in the new version, http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Comment 3

[Kai Jäger]

It never stopped working. BUT: You need to have JavaScript enabled in order to make font-downloading work.

That's sad, to put it mildly. It also makes it an "outstanding feature": no other browser requires JaaScript enabled for font-downloading. That's the way it should be.

Comment 4

[John Daggett (:jtd)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> It never stopped working. BUT: You need to have JavaScript enabled in order to
> make font-downloading work.

Javascript is not required for @font-face use.  Are you saying that the testcase fails with Javascript disabled?  Sorry, but I'm having trouble reproducing the issue you're seeing, could you include detailed steps to reproduce this behavior?

Comment 5

[Kai Jäger]

You are right, I am the problem: Only now did I realize that NoScript does block font-face rules by default.

Everything is fine from Firefox' point of view.