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LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM. If you have any question please visit our FAQ first: https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/

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Text appearing justified (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by gsdsam@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/librewolf@lemmy.ml

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I've tried searching for what the cause of this is but I've had no luck so hopefully it's ok to ask here.

For some reason LibreWolf is displaying pages with a significant amount of spacing between words/text justification.

The screenshot provided shows how the LibreWolf docs page looks in Firefox on the left and LibreWolf on the right. I am currently running LibreWolf version 141.0.3-1 on Kubuntu 25.04

Is there some way to alter LibreWolf so it renders the text more like the Firefox does or is this finger printing related i.e. intentional?

Thanks!

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[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

https://reddit.nerdvpn.de/r/LibreWolf/comments/1gjn14o/text_displaying_strangely_on_librewolf_in_kubuntu/?sort=top

It seems a mix of fingerprinting resistance and/or missing system fonts. The thread says that it tells the website that you use windows so it tries to use windows fonts, which are not installed and the fallback is weird.

[–] gsdsam@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

Good find, hadn't thought of the OS being the issue given that Firefox was playing ball but that makes sense. Thank you! This give me a push in the right direction to where I found folks talking about problems accessing fonts when Librewolf was installed with dnf on Fedora.

Following the same strain of thought I decided to try installing Librewolf from Flathub; curiously it accesses and displays the fonts correctly therefore solving my issue. My original method of install was via the debian based systems repo.