Firefox webfonts not loading

Question

I'm having an issue with webfonts only in Firefox, all other browsers (including IE) work perfectly.

My issues is that the webfonts won't load at all.

I've looked at this possible solution, editing the htaccess file (http://www.fontsquirrel.com/blog/2010/11/troubleshooting-font-face-problems) but I've had no luck.

The only other thing that I can say is in Firefox's error console I get the following warning:

Error in parsing value for "src". Skipped to the next declaration.

Here's a sample of my font-face code:

@font-face {
    font-family:AngelinaRegular;
    src:url(../fonts/angelina-webfont.eot);
    src:url(../fonts/angelina-webfont.eot?iefix) format(eot), url(../fonts/angelina-webfont.woff) format(woff), url(../fonts/angelina-webfont.ttf) format(truetype), url(../fonts/angelina-webfont.svg#webfontOvuhCGpN) format(svg);
    font-weight:normal;
    font-style:normal;
}

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Ha, I sat for ages trying to figure this out - for me, the fix was in calling each src separately - i.e, instead of this (fontsquirrel generated code):

@font-face {
    font-family: 'comic_bookregular';
    src: url('comic_book-webfont.eot');
    src: url('comic_book-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
         url('comic_book-webfont.svg#comic_bookregular') format('svg');
         url('comic_book-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
         url('comic_book-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),

font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;

}

I did this:

@font-face {
  font-family: 'comic_bookregular';
    src: url('../fonts/comic_book-webfont.eot');
    src: url('../fonts/comic_book-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype');
    src: url('../fonts/comic_book-webfont.svg#comic_bookregular') format('svg');
    src: url('../fonts/comic_book-webfont.woff') format('woff');
    src: url('../fonts/comic_book-webfont.ttf') format('truetype');

  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;

  }

If you look, the fontsquirrel code actually has a ';' where there should be a ',' but just fixing that didn't help. For some reason, closing all the src's with semi-colons did the job when nothing else would.

Answer 2

I've just had the same problem. The problem was a slight difference in the names of the fonts. There was a different typography in the font-family attribute in @font-face and the one I used in the class using this font. Apparently, the computer web browsers are more permissive than the tablets' ones.

Answer 3

There can also be cross domain issues with fonts in Firefox. See: http://www.cssbakery.com/2010/07/fixing-firefox-font-face-cross-domain_25.html

Answer 4

some issue I also experienced multiple times is the about:config setting gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled that when set to false the client wont download any fonts, making webmailers with webfont icons pretty bad, as I have seen with yahoo and office 365 webmails...

Answer 5

After scouring stackoverflow trying every suggestion and not having them work I found out what was wrong with my code that after fixing, made it work. I had left out the commas between font declarations.

I had

font-family: "GiveMeTime" sans-serif;

instead of

font-family: "GiveMeTime", sans-serif;

and as it worked in every other browser I didn't notice the error. Anyone else with this problem, check it's not a simple font stack error!

Answer 6

In my experience, Firefox is picky about expecting quotes in @font-face rules:

@font-face {
    font-family: AngelinaRegular;
    src: url('../fonts/angelina-webfont.eot');
    src: url('../fonts/angelina-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
        url('../fonts/angelina-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
        url('../fonts/angelina-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
        url('../fonts/angelina-webfont.svg#webfontOvuhCGpN') format('svg');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
}