I need to use an intranet app which relies on locally installed fonts for its look, but snap version of Firefox by default doesn't look into user's ~/.fonts. Is there a workaround for that? If not, are there plans to address this specific use case?
There is currently a bug that prevents Firefox from correctly using locally installed fonts. See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1760996
I have set up a workaround on my computer using symlinks:
~/snap/firefox/current/.local/share/fonts → ~/.local/share/fonts~/snap/firefox/current/.config/fontconfig → ~/.config/fontconfigFirst you create the symbolic links.
After that, you run
fc-cache -f -r
to force Firefox to use the refreshed font cache.
Finally, restart Firefox to make the change take effect.
I have installed the Apple's SF Pro fonts on my computer. Here is what I got after I have set up these symlinks, opened up https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/, and changed the global font family (as defined in <html> of that page) to SF Pro Text:
