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Safari/Firefox displays text as gibberish at sites that use Flash

Text displays as gibberish at some sites using Flash, such as YouTube. This appears to be strictly a display issue, since the text reads just fine when I copy/paste it into TextEdit.

I've attempted some trouble shooting to no avail:
Updated Flash Player, Reset Safari, opened in 32-bit, removed duplicate fonts (using FontBook...didn't manually remove), emptied the cache.

I think the problem showed up when I upgraded to Snow Leopard a few months ago.

I appreciate any input folks might have for this issue!

24" iMac, 15" MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Apr 29, 2010 10:46 AM

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rjm2d.com Author

Level 1

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May 3, 2010 3:11 PM in response to andyBall_uk

Re: Apple said that - even tho' another account works ok...?

In fairness to Apple, it wasn't until perusing Adobe's forums before I discovered the problem was nonexistent when logged into a different account.

TildeBee

Level 7

31,923 points

May 3, 2010 3:33 PM in response to rjm2d.com

rj --

I'm really so happy you found your solution here.
I learned something from you, too.
I had never seen duplicate fonts show up that way.
So, now I know!

Thanks and take care!

Safari/Firefox displays text as gibberish at sites that use Flash