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Iceweasel does not display some website icons but  instead

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Willynux
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Iceweasel does not display some website icons but  instead

#1 Post by Willynux »

I'm using wheezy and iceweasel 10.0.12
Some icons in websites viewed with iceweasel get replaced by a square with some inscription like this one: .
Other browsers like chromium or epiphany are ok. I've seen this happen on omgubuntu.co.uk (menu at the top) and photobucket.com. On photobucket the site becomes unusable because I cannot tell what a button does.
This does not seem to be a text encoding problem since these are icons and not characters. On the source code it appears as an empty tag: <i class="icon-angle-down"></i> and the CSS shows:
.icon-angle-down:before {
content: "\f107";
}

Is there a problem in iceweasel or did I do something wrong?
Can someone shed me some light please
(I'm using wheezy and iceweasel 10.0.12)

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Re: Iceweasel does not display some website icons but  inst

#2 Post by craigevil »

The pages are poorly done, the same box shows up here in Firefox, Qupzilla, and Chrome.

or it is a strange font.

Although I would update Iceweasel to the current ESR,
17.0.3esr-1.

Add:
deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ experimental iceweasel-esr

apt-get update
apt-get -t experimental install iceweasel
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Re: Iceweasel does not display some website icons but  inst

#3 Post by Willynux »

Hey,
Thanks for the reply, I've just updated to Iw17 as suggested but the problem remains. Even if the site is poorly done, shouldn't this be marked as a bug?

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Re: Iceweasel and  icon

#4 Post by llivv »

can you post the url of the web page?
edit: Oh duh, there are the links :oops:
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Re: Iceweasel does not display some website icons but  inst

#5 Post by dasein »

craigevil wrote:...or it is a strange font.
This.
Willynux wrote:This does not seem to be a text encoding problem since these are icons and not characters.
No, these are indeed text elements, not graphics.
Willynux wrote:Is there a problem in iceweasel or did I do something wrong?
Neither.
Willynux wrote:Even if the site is poorly done, shouldn't this be marked as a bug?
Not a browser bug, certainly. The numbnuts over at omgubuntu are trying to combine a css hack with a specific font to achieve a particular visual effect (specifically, something that looks like a pull-down). They should be boiled in oil. But it's not the browser fault, nor is it anything you did.

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Re: Iceweasel does not display some website icons but  inst

#6 Post by Willynux »

Alrite, thank you for the reply, it was definitively helpful.

I've downloaded the font you mentioned (http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/) and placed in the folder /usr/share/fonts/ then restartet IceWeasel. Now I can see these iconic css hacks and use my favourite browser to navigate through omgubuntu and photobucket.

I don't understand how chromium and epiphany were able to display the icons even before I manually installed the font but anyway...

Thank you guys

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Re: Iceweasel does not display some website icons but  inst

#7 Post by theAdmiral71 »

This is still a glitch in Iceweasel 37.0.2 on Debian 8 (Jessie). However, craigevil's fix works. Thank you.

A little additional, more detailed guidance would have you download the fonts file mentioned above in ZIP format, extract the ZIP file creating a new folder (e.g.--named folder "a") of several directories of fonts, and just move folder "a" that was created by the extraction to the /usr/share/fonts directory. It will look a little out of place with the versioning as part of the folder name, but that's the way it goes in /usr/share/fonts.

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Re: Iceweasel does not display some website icons but  inst

#8 Post by golinux »

Here's another reason why icons might not render properly thanks to FontAwesome. There is a fix for it too.
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