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Sidenote:

  Chrome Canary and Beta were hit with a fairly horrible font bug recently. If
  you haven't yet noticed the bug, fonts have been unloading and reverting
  to a system font after the page has experienced a period of inactivity.

Holy shit, I just assumed it was something borked in my setup (especially since I've been messing with fonts and font paths a lot recently).

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Yup, not just canary/beta -- my up-to-date 31.0.1650.63 on OSX has had it for at least a couple of weeks now. It's actually the most obvious browser bug I think I've seen in years, and seems to particularly affect Wikipedia.

I just flicked away from this page to wikipedia and noticed exactly what you described on the same version of Chrome. Weird!

Yeah, I have this issue too, though I'm using stable Chrome, I thought that if this is a bug it must be already reported, the funny thing is that I tried to google it and all I got was some articles about web-fonts and icon fonts rendering problems.

Yep, that's one that I've been seeing for a while, but never quite got around to filing a bug report, since it was a bit hard to characterize, and for some reason I got a blank screen when I tried to do a screen recording of it.

Mostly hit Wikipedia, but occasionally saw it in other places too.

link to issue: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=236298

Yeah, I notice this using the light table IDE all the time. Didn't know it was a chrome thing till now.

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