Google font problem in Firefox

Hi guys,

I've been browing this site for a while and enjoying it to the extent I bought my first mac - a new rev powerbook 15" - it arrived a month ago nearly to the day.

Any issues I've had have been solved by coming to this forum - it's such a great resource - but now I have an issue and I can't find an answer - hence the first post.

Basically, I loaded up firefox and did a google search this morning only to find google is looking a little strange. The fonts seem broken. I've attached an image, I hope you can see it. This is only affecting google, all other sites seem fine.

As far as I can tell, the only things that could have possible affected it are a) I downloaded an update to Java last night and b) I unplugged my external HD without ejecting.

Google looks fine in safari, it's just firefox. My preferences, as far as I can tell are unchanged. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

PS - I've just noticed the ad for fasthosts at the bottom of this page is doing the same thing.

Hi Will,

Thanks for the reply. All prefs are the same yours, and times is working in illustrator.

I've validated the font in fontbook too and it's come back fine.

I've restarted the system once and firefox many times but it's still the same. Any other suggestions?

It's obviously a font issue. Does anybody know which font google uses when summarising a website?

If you look at the image, under the links, the text in bold is fine, whereas the regular text is broken. I reckon if I can figue out which font it is I'll be half way there.

Cheers.

I did install a lot of new fonts, but that was a couple of weeks ago - this only started today.

I've now disabled all helvetica's except bold and regular, but still no fix!

Help!

I must have installed arial again, because it was duplicated. I've resolved the dupes and all is working fine again.

Thanks a lot for the help!

If anyones interested, the font being diplayed was "Eco-Files" which I also disabled. When I enable it again, firefox goes back to using that. Really odd!