Icon-font sporadically shows up as squares and back to icon on hover

Question

Getting a weird behaviour for FontAwesome icon font.

Icons do show up on a page load, but when I\'m flipping between the tabs and going back to the original page, ic

Answer 1

I was brought to your question, because we have been experiencing the same thing on our site with the Symbolicons icon font.

After doing some research I found out that this happens due to a bug in Chrome. So the issue is not with Font Awesome and I don't think you can do anything for now to fix it. Guess we just have to wait for the fix to hit the stable Chrome version.

Links to the bug discussions:

• Issue 336075: embedded fonts unload
• Issue 336170: Wrong rendering of Webfonts when loading tabs in background