Shields breaking text/fonts on some websites (followup)

[pilgrim-brave]

#23093 (comment)

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I experienced this issue and arrived here after some basic troubleshooting and finding that turning down shields allowed our font stack to work as expected. At the time, I was running macOS 12.4 and a slightly outdated version of Brave.

The font stack is Inter, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, avenir next, avenir, helvetica neue, helvetica, Ubuntu, roboto, noto, segoe ui, arial, sans-serif, and the font that I was seeing was avenir. So the browser was skipping Inter (despite Inter being installed correctly and having worked as expected with this font stack previously) and also skipping the two apple system font declarations. Again, turning down shields allowed the stack to perform as expected.

Next, I updated Brave to 1.42.86, which was after the fix announced above, and that did not improve the issue. Only after updating macOS to 12.5 was the issue resolved.

Hope this helps!
"""

[LaurenWags]

from @pes10k:

QA test: https://dev-pages.brave.software/fingerprinting/fonts.html
(the “Pseudo Fonts” section)

[LaurenWags]

Requires 1.42.90 or higher to test

[stephendonner]

Verified PASSED using

Brave	1.42.91 Chromium: 104.0.5112.81 (Official Build) (x86_64)
Revision	5b7b76419d50f583022568b6764b630f6ddc9208-refs/branch-heads/5112@{#1309}
OS	macOS Version 13.0 (Build 22A5321d)

Steps:

1. installed 1.42.91
2. installed the Fredoka One font
3. launched Brave
4. loaded https://dev-pages.brave.software/fingerprinting/fonts.html and https://dev-pages.bravesoftware.com/fingerprinting/fonts.html
5. clicked on Start tests
6. checked the Pseudo Fonts section's output

Confirmed the Control and Test font were rendered the same and with the same width: 343 pixels

dev-pages.brave.software	dev-pages.bravesoftware.com/

Fredoka One

[MadhaviSeelam]

Added OS/macOS label to this issue. Per discussion with @pes10k, this is only applicable to macOS, see https://bravesoftware.slack.com/archives/CD495CWLR/p1660159116959389?thread_ts=1660158731.020959&cid=CD495CWLR for more information.