Fedora provides lots of fonts, and I have lots of them installed. I would like the browser to use them instead of going out on the web to find fonts for pages it is rendering. A nice to have feature would be a mapping of common fonts to substitute fonts if they aren't available. For instance, if a web page calls for Times-Roman, and I don't have that installed, the server substitutes a reasonable alternative. This would be mapped to things like fonts.googleapis.com so that I would still get a reasonable font when the browser wants to call there, but gets the local font server instead.
Is there such a thing already in Fedora? If there isn't, would it be easy to create such a thing with existing tools?
As an alternative, could I compile the local fonts into firefox so that they are directly available?
On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:19:33 -0700 stan via users wrote:
Is there such a thing already in Fedora?
If you can find the actual name of the web font, most of them can be downloaded and installed locally, just like any other font from places like https://fonts.google.com/ (they aren't packaged in rpms though so you need to do extra work to keep them up to date).
Considering all the css and ads and images on every web page, I doubt the font download is measurable:-).
On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:49:55 -0400 Tom Horsley horsley1953@gmail.com wrote:
Considering all the css and ads and images on every web page, I doubt the font download is measurable:-).
It isn't the download time so much as the tracking. With browser signature, it is like a trail of bread crumbs to call fonts.blah on every page. Just like the capcha, etc.
With scripting turned off for third party sites, a lot of the overhead is gone. My position is that if they want to push the ads with their content, I'll see them, but I won't let them use my computer to fetch ads for them, or track me so they can sell the information.