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My red heart emoji (❤️) looks weird in #Firefox

This has been the case for quite a while now and I cannot for the life of my figure out why that is. I never explicitly made it this way.
It's only in Firefox and a machine with pretty much the exact same #NixOS config does not exhibit this issue.

I tried clearing unused fonts out of \~/.local/share/fonts/ (no emoji fonts remain) and updated the fc-cache but it didn't help. (Obviously I restarted Firefox.)

Any ideas?

@firefox #Linux #freedesktop

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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Does it happen with a fresh Firefox profile too? Run firefox --ProfileManager to open the GUI, click Create Profile and then Start Firefox with it. After checking if you still have the issue, go back to this menu and select your previous original Profile to restore it.

[–] Atemu@darmstadt.social 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

@thingsiplay

Indeed it does not.

Time to bisect my prefs.js huh...

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

did you block loading fonts in an addon, like ublock?

[–] Atemu@darmstadt.social 1 points 17 hours ago

@ReversalHatchery

No and that has nothing to do with it. My local font should not produce this icon.

In fact, when I paste the emoji into UI elements in Firefox, it's the correct one.

[–] haroldstork@lemm.ee 2 points 18 hours ago

Have you messed about in Firefox's font settings?