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I recently updated Firefox on Ubuntu 14.04. I also installed some fonts on Ubuntu after that.

After this, the google search on firefox looks like this:

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I've tried explicitely going to google.com and then searching, still same problem occurs.

Yahoo and other search engines work fine though.

After searching web, I tried using following things, but none work:

  1. Change language of firefox.
  2. Change font of firefox.
  3. Reinstall firefox from ubuntu center.
  4. sudo rm -rf ~/.mozilla (to completely reset firefox)
  5. Remove firefox, perform step 4, install firefox from ubuntu center.

But none seems to work. Can anyone suggest a solution?

muru
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Shishir Gupta
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I'm assuming the problem is caused by either an unsupported font or unsupported language.

Click Edit->Preferences->Content

You should get this:

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Choose default font serif. If this doesn't resolve the issue after restarting firefox, you may also wish to check languages by clicking the Choose Button highlighted above and changing to English for testing purposes

This action will result in this:

ff2

When visiting google.in I also noticed the page is available in a number of languages which you can choose by clicking on a link on that page. It's possible you have a mismatch between the language chosen on that page and the language chosen in firefox.

Elder Geek
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1.The complement of apt-get install package is apt-get remove package. To remove all associated settings too, you need to run apt-get purge package.

Remove orphaned packages

A graphical tool to find and remove orphaned libraries

refer here to pulge package

this should also help you

here is another link to completely remove firefox

2.Note that these commands rely on the uninstallation scripts provided with the package. All packages in the main repository I know of do their job of uninstalling very well. This may not be the case for third-party packages or browsers.

as for removing 3rdparty/dependency packages software you may try:

Synaptic Package Manager by means of the Ubuntu Software Center.

Click on the grey Ubuntu logo (Dash home). Query: synaptic Click on Synaptic Package Manager

3.or perhaps system restore would work:

As for the "System rollback" / "System Restore" features, the closest feature you'll get is a system image using software like Clonezilla. Unfortunately, this cannot be done within a running system and must be performed from a Live CD.

Community
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Ahmed Ali
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Try running this on terminal

sudo apt-get remove --purge firefox*; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade; sudo apt-get autoremove; sudo apt-get autoclean; sudo apt-get install firefox
whizzzkid
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