Page not working on Chromium & Firefox on Archlinux

[lenareinhard]

Chromium: Version 38.0.2125.104 (290379) (64-bit)
Firefox: 33.0.1

[badboy]

Same for me, works if I block fonts.googleapis.com (and thus the webfont).
I can load the required css and the linked fonts manually. Not sure why it blocks the rendering

[janl]

cc @espy

Maybe this helps: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/958143

[janl]

Not all Linux: https://twitter.com/netzvagabund/status/532259825351421953

[lenareinhard]

see also #100 and #101

[janl]

Some more data points:

• https://twitter.com/blaue_flecken/status/532260576509329408
• https://twitter.com/Lady_Ada_King/status/532260860975415296
• https://twitter.com/MarkGavalda/status/532261171060293632 & https://twitter.com/MarkGavalda/status/532261853028958208

[janl]

FWIW, 8% Linux users on the site

[chesles]

If this helps, I see the font crossed out in chome's inspector. Network tab shows the fonts get downloaded, just not being rendered for some reason.

[candeira]

FWIW, it's working for me in stock Chrome/Ubuntu14.04.

kandinski@desire:~$ head -n 1 /etc/apt/sources.list
deb mirror://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive/ trusty main restricted universe multiverse
kandinski@desire:~$ google-chrome --version
Google Chrome 38.0.2125.111 

[jo]

Same issue, also on Firefox 33.0.2 3.17.2-1-ARCH x86_64
Btw. similar problem here: http://blog.keithcirkel.co.uk/why-we-should-stop-using-grunt/

[chesles]

Similar problem with the google fonts site itself, actually. Other fonts there render, but not "Fira Sans".

[jo]

Seems like its a problem with that specific font, which is also used by the site I mentioned above.

[espy]

Hello @chesles, @jo and @badboy , I've switched to self-hosting the font instead of pulling it from google, did that make any difference? Thanks!

[jo]

That has fixed it for me.

[badboy]

Much better now

[espy]

And there was much rejoicing!

I'll consider this fixed now. Fingers crossed!

[verpixelt]

I'm sorry, but we have to do a little more work here. With the self hosted version we've increased the font loading time massively. With a simulated DSL connection it takes nearly 4sec(even worse on 3G or EDGE) until we get content displayed. This is far to long and in my opinion unacceptable. I will take a look into it.

[verpixelt]

I've developed a solution which might work out. I try to setup a virtual machine with Arch Linux tonight and test it.

[verpixelt]

We can finally close this issue with #133. Additionally: we now score a 85/100(mobile) and 92/100(desktop)(speed) on the Google PageSpeed Insights, which is currently the best we can achieve.

[badboy]

Wooooah, that is fast.

[zoepage]

WOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[verpixelt]

😘😎thanks ;)