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Hey SEMW,

Sorry about that. The missing character detection can be a little finicky. Can I get a browser version / OS?

Heya. Other people have already replied with versions it fails on, but for completeness, I'm on Firefox 47.0 (package version: 47.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) on Ubuntu 16.04.

Thanks. Looks like Linux needs some love. We'll be fixing this up asap.

FYI, same thing in firefox-47.0-4 in Fedora 23. Works fine in google-chrome-stable-51.0.2704.84-1.

Arch Linux user reporting in. Works fine in… uh… latest chromium (51.0.2704.84-1) and there are blocks in ff (47.0-1). Epiphany (3.20.2-1) horribly crashes, so bad even dev tools stop working.

I use infinality-bundle fontconfig preset.

I have same issue in Chromium 51.0.2704.84, Arch Linux. I don't have google fonts installed, is that necessary?

No, it is not necessary.

We'll take a look.

We didn't have a chance to test specifically on Arch, but we think we got it. Let us know if it works out.

I have the same issue as SEMW on firefox 47 / archlinux

I'm seeing the same issue on Firefox 45.2.0esr on Debian.

I'm on Edge, scotth, can you unblock my browser?

Yep. We have it in the works. Some bugs came up before launch that we didn't have a chance to get to, but it's coming.

Firefox 47 Ubuntu also looks like that. Sad.

Firefox 46 on Ubuntu 16.04. Broken both with and without AdBlock (it's many time the source of pain points).

Looks the same for me.

  * Firefox 47
  * Debian unstable
  * freetype 2.6.3
  * fontconfig 2.11

Also broken in Firefox 46.0.1 on Fedora 23, running Gnome 3.18 on Xorg 1.18.3-2/Wayland 1.9.0.

Equally broken for me on Firefox 46.0.1 on Kubuntu 16.04.

I have the same problem, submitted through the feedback thing so you should have a screenshot and all kinds of debug information from me.

Debian testing,

Chromium 49.0.2623.87 built on Debian stretch/sid, running on Debian stretch/sid (64-bit)

Blank white page on Firefox 47.0, OS X El Capitan, cookies disabled.

Fails on Xubuntu 16.04/FF47 as well.

Windows 10 latest, Edge latest

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