From reading other bug reports and issue trackers, it appears that application teams (Mozilla and others) and GTK+ developers have pointed at each other, so the problem is stuck in the "probably won't fix" zone and has been for several years now. This is bad for a lot of users who find DejaVu Sans Condensed to be by far the clearest, most readable and comfortable font on their machine, especially for web browsing.
I am sorry that I currently have to trick Firefox into recognizing this font by forcing a font substitution. At least it works, which is more than I can say for Chrome... thus far I have not discovered any way to make DejaVu Sans Condensed available in Chrome's font picker. That issue alone is completely constraining my choice of browsers.
Yes, the same problem is still in effect as of Firefox 20.0 on all of my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS systems including a clean install.
The problem and a successful workaround are described well here: keramida. wordpress. com/2009/ 11/07/dejavu- condensed- as-default/
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From reading other bug reports and issue trackers, it appears that application teams (Mozilla and others) and GTK+ developers have pointed at each other, so the problem is stuck in the "probably won't fix" zone and has been for several years now. This is bad for a lot of users who find DejaVu Sans Condensed to be by far the clearest, most readable and comfortable font on their machine, especially for web browsing.
I am sorry that I currently have to trick Firefox into recognizing this font by forcing a font substitution. At least it works, which is more than I can say for Chrome... thus far I have not discovered any way to make DejaVu Sans Condensed available in Chrome's font picker. That issue alone is completely constraining my choice of browsers.