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I'm there for the text, not the font

Me too. In Firefox on OS X, I simply set Lucida Grande as my default font, and I uncheck the box that allows pages to choose their own fonts. I don't think I'm missing much.

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I did the same in FF/Win - web fonts were a huge step back in my opinion - but immediately discovered a bunch of sites (including GitHub) abusing web fonts for button images, which made them pretty much unusable. Have you found a selective workaround for this?

With uMatrix you can selectively enable various features for sites. I tend to start with minimal sets and re-enable to the point I've achieved sufficient functionality for my needs.

I use Chrome and a plugin called Font Changer that lets one override fonts on pages. I don't need to have it turned on for all sites but it can be done. Mostly I just have everything set to Arial (I don't like reading any serif fonts on screen). Perhaps there is a plugin for Firefox that does a similar thing.

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