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XWiki Platform / cid:jira-generated-image-avatar-aba33372-aa8c-4faf-b96d-0f6f3f41fe95 XWIKI-16570 Closed

Typography Font Family Sans Serif fonts are not properly displayed on Firefox and IE11

 
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cid:jira-generated-image-avatar-5186063a-52fe-4a8f-a265-03ebe0e1aeee Changes by Charpentier Lucas on 30/Jul/26 12:49
 
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Assignee: Charpentier Lucas
Resolution: Won't Fix
Status: Open Closed
 
 

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cid:jira-generated-image-avatar-5186063a-52fe-4a8f-a265-03ebe0e1aeee Charpentier Lucas on 30/Jul/26 12:49
 

It seems like it's a bug/feature of firefox on linux : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47752
I'll close the ticket as a "won't fix", because this is a divergence in the behaviour of browsers that we can't really fix without bringing in even more inconsistencies (assuming a technical fix would even be possible).
Firefox resolves the CSS generic keywords such as `cursive` and `fantasy` by relying on the OS fontconfig aliases (but this fontconfig at the OS level is not consistent and usually empty for fantasy on Linux) while Chrome bundles its own font-substitution table.
Ultimately it's an incompatibility between the choices made on Firefox and https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/tuning-fontconfig.html that ends up in this unexpected behavior.