firefox displaying gibberish (imac)

[maeglutz]

well, this happened a few weeks ago when i installed an update. i tried to fix the problem by changing the default serif and sans serif fonts, but it didn't work. does anyone know what's up with this? here are some screen shots. as you can see, i did a search for the word "boogie" (first word that popped in my head) and the search results SHOW the word boogie but nothing else.

i just used safari these past few weeks, but i should probably fix this problem.

 

[miles01110]

Disable your extensions. Does the problem persist?

 

[maeglutz]

Disable your extensions. Does the problem persist?

should i disable them by restarting while holding down shift, or another way?

 

[maeglutz]

Disable your extensions. Does the problem persist?

hey, sorry this took a few days.
when started up with extensions disabled, the problem does NOT persist. what does this mean?

also, dreamweaver was having the same problem with the gibberish.

thanks

 

[Patrick J]

Try fixing your fonts in the font book application.

 

[miles01110]

when started up with extensions disabled, the problem does NOT persist. what does this mean?

It probably means that one of your extensions is causing a problem. Are they all updated to the latest version? The next thing to try would be to disable them one by one to try and narrow down which extension is the culprit.

 

[Patrick J]

also, dreamweaver was having the same problem with the gibberish.

This indicates it is somewhere outside Firefox?

 

[miles01110]

This indicates it is somewhere outside Firefox?

Maybe, but I don't really understand how Dreamweaver factors into any of this.

 

[Patrick J]

Maybe, but I don't really understand how Dreamweaver factors into any of this.

Maybe Dreamweaver was exporting / previewing pages using Firefox, so if Firefox fonts were messed up, the Dreamweaver page would be messed up as well.