new font install overwrites Arial

[tomoisyourgod]

I've never had this problem before ever! But when I install this new font, it over writes Arial and screws up text on Firefox, changing it to this new font I install...

 

[tsd]

Good riddance to Arial: it's just a bad knock-off of Helvetica.

As to WHY it's doing this, I know it's easy to fix in Firefox via the Firefox Preferences, but that's just a fix, not a preventative.

You could try renaming the Arial font file (username>Library>Fonts) to something random, then install the new font, then rename Arial back to it's original name.

 

[mkrishnan]

Okay, this may be an idiotic question, but is the new font also called Arial?

 

[icbreeze]

I've never had this problem before ever! But when I install this new font, it over writes Arial and screws up text on Firefox, changing it to this new font I install...

Yea i have that problem too... the damn font has completely messed up my firefox...


if anybody has a solution to this problem please post it up...

 

[jerryrock]

You can change the default Firefox font in preferences.

If you are running Leopard and Time machine you can restore the original font.

You can re-install Firefox (probably the easiest fix).

 

[clamaru]

Overwrite the font

I solved the problem asking to a friend for the original arial font for mac, then overwrite from the library fonts and done!