I finally fixed a weird font issue on my personal site that took 3 days to track down

I was updating my old blog and the headings looked wrong in Firefox but fine in Chrome. Everyone online said to just clear the cache, but that didn't work. I had to go line by line through my CSS for hours and found a bad @font-face rule I wrote back in 2018. It was loading a local font file that didn't exist anymore, but only Firefox cared. Has anyone else had a browser pick up on a tiny mistake that others just ignore?

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sean_ramirez4d ago

Chrome lets me get away with messy code all the time, it's a bad habit. Firefox is stricter but it catches real problems.

lindaw294d ago

Oh absolutely! I had a form that looked fine in Chrome but completely broke in Firefox. Turns out I had a missing closing tag Chrome just ignored. It's a real wake-up call.