And yet ANOTHER computer question

[Hawkmoon]

I think this one is about Firefox -- or maybe not.

I have my old Desktop (Windows XP, service pack 3) and my new notebook (Windows 7 -- professional, I think -- whatever Toshiba installs on their Satellite series) both using Firefox 31.7.0 as the primary browser. I was playing around tonight and I noticed that if I go to the Drudge Report, they don't display the same on both computers. On the desktop, the headline for American Pharoah winning the triple crown seems to be something like Arial (or Helvetica. All the headlines in the three columns under the lead story display in a serif font, probably Times New Roman.

On the notebook, the American Pharoah headline was very much bold face. All the article titles below are in Courier (typewriter font).

Does anyone know how I can get the notebook display to look like the desktop display?

[Regolith]

There are two things that could be going on here. One is that your browser's default fonts are set differently on each computer, and the other is that the font could be specified by a javascript that you're blocking (for example, there's a conservative news site whose name escapes me at the moment that does this; if you're blocking javascript everything shows up in Comic Sans  ).

For the first one, in Firefox go to Tools->Options->Content, then at Fonts & Colors make sure the default font is the same for both computers. The Advanced button will let you be real specific and choose your default serif, sans-serif, and monospace fonts.

If that doesn't work, try disabling any javascript blockers you're using to see if that's the problem, and then you can try and work out which specific script you need to allow through.