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Why does Wikipedia keep begging for foreign fonts?
Everytime I connect to Wikipedia, it keep getting asked to download
additional (foreign) fonts. (My settings are to ASK, not automatically download addons). I'm going to English sites, so there is no reason to need the fonts. I never download them, I cant read foreign languages anyhow. But everytime I go to wikipedia I got answer "NO" two to four times. It's annoying. This is for K-Meleon browser. |
Why does Wikipedia keep begging for foreign fonts?
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Why does Wikipedia keep begging for foreign fonts?
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , writes: Everytime I connect to Wikipedia, it keep getting asked to download additional (foreign) fonts. (My settings are to ASK, not automatically download addons). I'm going to English sites, so there is no reason to need the fonts. I never download them, I cant read foreign languages anyhow. But everytime I go to wikipedia I got answer "NO" two to four times. It's annoying. This is for K-Meleon browser. I don't know the answer, but thought I should tell you you are not alone - I used to get that a lot too. Not sure why it stopped - possibly different browser/machine; I haven't been to Wikipedia on my old '98 for ages. (IIRR, Korean was a "popular" one.) Possibly a K-Meleon issue? Or maybe his specific version of it? Wonder if it happens to him with any other browser. |
Why does Wikipedia keep begging for foreign fonts?
In message , Bill in Co
writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , writes: Everytime I connect to Wikipedia, it keep getting asked to download additional (foreign) fonts. (My settings are to ASK, not automatically download addons). I'm going to English sites, so there is no reason to need the fonts. I never download them, I cant read foreign languages anyhow. But everytime I go to wikipedia I got answer "NO" two to four times. It's annoying. This is for K-Meleon browser. I don't know the answer, but thought I should tell you you are not alone - I used to get that a lot too. Not sure why it stopped - possibly different browser/machine; I haven't been to Wikipedia on my old '98 for ages. (IIRR, Korean was a "popular" one.) Possibly a K-Meleon issue? Or maybe his specific version of it? Wonder if it happens to him with any other browser. It happened to me and I have never used K-Meleon; it would have been Netscape or Firefox for me. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Personally, I don't like the Senate idea, I don't like the idea of having to elect another bunch of overpaid incompetents. I don't like the idea of having wholesale appointments by the PM of the day for domination of the second chamber. I like anachronism. I like the idea of a bunch of unelected congenital idiots getting in the way of a bunch of conmen. - Charles F. Hankel, 1998-3-19. |
Why does Wikipedia keep begging for foreign fonts?
In message , Bill in Co
writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , Bill in Co writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , writes: Everytime I connect to Wikipedia, it keep getting asked to download additional (foreign) fonts. (My settings are to ASK, not automatically download addons). I'm going to English sites, so there is no reason to need the fonts. I never download them, I cant read foreign languages anyhow. But everytime I go to wikipedia I got answer "NO" two to four times. It's annoying. This is for K-Meleon browser. I don't know the answer, but thought I should tell you you are not alone - I used to get that a lot too. Not sure why it stopped - possibly different browser/machine; I haven't been to Wikipedia on my old '98 for ages. (IIRR, Korean was a "popular" one.) Possibly a K-Meleon issue? Or maybe his specific version of it? Wonder if it happens to him with any other browser. It happened to me and I have never used K-Meleon; it would have been Netscape or Firefox for me. It "happened" to you as in past tense? What did you do to fix it? Since I'm primarily using IE8 I don't know. I only use Firefox, or more often, Pale Moon, on special occasions, however. I'm not sure I ever fixed it: it's years since I saw it, but I'm now using Firefox (now 11, though I think from 3.x on) on XP; when I remember Wikipedia asking for extra fonts (actually IIRR it asked for a "package" or something, which might not have been just fonts), I was using a '98SElite machine, with the browsers shown (Netscape would have been probably version 7 - probably 7.2 - and Firefox version 2.x [I don't have Kernelex], though I don't think I had Firefox on it in the days I used to get this problem). IIRR I usually said no, and whatever Wiki page I was looking at still came up fine; I might have said yes once or twice (what it wanted to load was I think rather big for dialup use), and I _think_ it loaded OK but didn't change anything (including the asking). But this last part is very hazy memory. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Personally, I don't like the Senate idea, I don't like the idea of having to elect another bunch of overpaid incompetents. I don't like the idea of having wholesale appointments by the PM of the day for domination of the second chamber. I like anachronism. I like the idea of a bunch of unelected congenital idiots getting in the way of a bunch of conmen. - Charles F. Hankel, 1998-3-19. |
Why does Wikipedia keep begging for foreign fonts?
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Bill in Co writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , Bill in Co writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , writes: Everytime I connect to Wikipedia, it keep getting asked to download additional (foreign) fonts. (My settings are to ASK, not automatically download addons). I'm going to English sites, so there is no reason to need the fonts. I never download them, I cant read foreign languages anyhow. But everytime I go to wikipedia I got answer "NO" two to four times. It's annoying. This is for K-Meleon browser. I don't know the answer, but thought I should tell you you are not alone - I used to get that a lot too. Not sure why it stopped - possibly different browser/machine; I haven't been to Wikipedia on my old '98 for ages. (IIRR, Korean was a "popular" one.) Possibly a K-Meleon issue? Or maybe his specific version of it? Wonder if it happens to him with any other browser. It happened to me and I have never used K-Meleon; it would have been Netscape or Firefox for me. It "happened" to you as in past tense? What did you do to fix it? Since I'm primarily using IE8 I don't know. I only use Firefox, or more often, Pale Moon, on special occasions, however. I'm not sure I ever fixed it: it's years since I saw it, but I'm now using Firefox (now 11, though I think from 3.x on) on XP; when I remember Wikipedia asking for extra fonts (actually IIRR it asked for a "package" or something, which might not have been just fonts), I was using a '98SElite machine, with the browsers shown (Netscape would have been probably version 7 - probably 7.2 - and Firefox version 2.x [I don't have Kernelex], though I don't think I had Firefox on it in the days I used to get this problem). IIRR I usually said no, and whatever Wiki page I was looking at still came up fine; I might have said yes once or twice (what it wanted to load was I think rather big for dialup use), and I _think_ it loaded OK but didn't change anything (including the asking). But this last part is very hazy memory. I thought you liked the older versions, like me? :-) FF11?? What are you doing with FF11? I still have version 3.5 installed. You also might consider Pale Moon, which I believe is more streamlined for windows, and not a bunch of OS's. At any rate, Pale Moon seems quicker to load for me (esp the first time). |
Why does Wikipedia keep begging for foreign fonts?
wikipedia on some pages(even English pages) utilises foreign fonts to
display names in their origin language like greek, hebrew etc..this might trigger a font download for the missing font. it seems you've set not to download fonts in internet options, this is only applicable for internet explorer and trident shells. k-meleon is a gecko browser and isn't affected by IE internet options. to disable font downloads in k-meleon: 1- in the urlbar type "about:config" without the quotes. alternatively you can access advanced settings by clicking on edit menu, select and expand the configuration submen and select 'browser configuration from there 2- in the advanced configuration window, search for this pref: gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled 3- by default it's set to true to enable downloading missing fonts, double click on it to set to false and disable missing fonts download. note: this is a universal preferance and not per site, meaning it will not just affect wikipedia but all websites. you might need to restart k-meleon for changed to take effect, browse to a wikipedia page for testing. if you're using k-meleon 1.1.x or 1.5.x series,; you might want to upgrade to the 1.6 beta release which is very stable, however it's NT based and will not run on windows 98 without the kernelex unofficial update which is available from this site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kernelex/ best of luck K-Meleon forum: http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/forum/ wrote in message ... Everytime I connect to Wikipedia, it keep getting asked to download additional (foreign) fonts. (My settings are to ASK, not automatically download addons). I'm going to English sites, so there is no reason to need the fonts. I never download them, I cant read foreign languages anyhow. But everytime I go to wikipedia I got answer "NO" two to four times. It's annoying. This is for K-Meleon browser. |
Why does Wikipedia keep begging for foreign fonts?
Bill in Co wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: I think I missed your response on this one, John: snip I just left this part in below for context It "happened" to you as in past tense? What did you do to fix it? Since I'm primarily using IE8 I don't know. I only use Firefox, more often, Pale Moon, on special occasions, however. I'm not sure I ever fixed it: it's years since I saw it, but I'm now using Firefox (now 11, though I think from 3.x on) on XP; when I remember Wikipedia asking for extra fonts (actually IIRR it asked for a "package" or something, which might not have been just fonts), I was using a '98SElite machine, with the browsers shown (Netscape would have been probably version 7 - probably 7.2 - and Firefox version 2.x [I don't have Kernelex], though I don't think I had Firefox on it in the days I used to get this problem). IIRR I usually said no, and whatever Wiki page I was looking at still came up fine; I might have said yes once or twice (what it wanted to load was I think rather big for dialup use), and I _think_ it loaded OK but didn't change anything (including the asking). But this last part is very hazy memory. I thought you liked the older versions, like me? :-) FF11?? What's so good about the newer FF11? (I still have version FF ver 3.5 installed). You also might consider Pale Moon, which was coded for Windows, and not a bunch of OS's as is FF. At any rate, Pale Moon seems quicker to load for me. |
Why does Wikipedia keep begging for foreign fonts? (Now browser thoughts.)
In message , Bill in Co
writes: Bill in Co wrote: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: I think I missed your response on this one, John: [] I thought you liked the older versions, like me? :-) FF11?? What's so good about the newer FF11? (I still have version FF ver 3.5 installed). I too was (am) uneasy about Firefox's upgrade rate (though it seems to have stopped for a moment - I just checked, and 11.0 is still up to date; AFAICR, it's been 11 for some time). Trouble is, I could never see an obvious point at which to stop it upgrading, and now am reluctant to go back, lest something (and yes, I don't know what!) I've grown used to working. You also might consider Pale Moon, which was coded for Windows, and not a bunch of OS's as is FF. At any rate, Pale Moon seems quicker to load for me. Yes, I keep hearing of it, mostly from people who're happy with it (or, it might be that it's always the same person, possibly you!). It's just lethargy on my part, and reluctance to learn (however small the differences) yet another browser. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956) |
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