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by pavelkaroukin 5195 days ago
I see this as valid reason. Although, did not see difference on ubuntu and windows. What browser + OS you use?

While this is a reasonable explanation, I see many cases where system fonts set wrong and as a result an unstyled page look terrible.

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> What browser + OS you use?

I saw the problem with Firefox 10 on CentOS. My default font was specifically configured to Bitstream Vera Serif.

Setting the default font in the Preferences seems to only change it for the encoding in the active tab (unless you go into the Advanced dialog). For several Asian languages it wanted to use "serif", which appears to be the 20-year-old X11 default version.