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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Aug 2017
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Font loading requires restart to recognize newly added system fonts

Reported by dametca...@gmail.com, May 30 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Install new system fonts.
2. Attempt to change configured fonts to newly added options.
3. Note the absence of these fonts until reload.

What is the expected behavior?
The font additions would be recognised and available for selection.

What went wrong?
Newly added fonts were not available for selection.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 58.0.3029.110  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version: 

The issue originally surfaced in VS Code, which utilises Chromium. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/27473#event-1101868921
 
Labels: Needs-Triage-M58
Cc: kkaluri@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback
Tested this issue on Windows 10 with chrome #58.0.3029.110.

These are the steps are followed
1. Launch chrome and navigate to "chrome://settings/fonts"
2. Confirmed "Arab Dances" is not installed in the system.
3. Install "Arab Dances" in the windows machine.
4. In chrome browser refresh the "chrome://settings" pages and navigate to "chrome://settings/fonts" page
5. Observed "Arab Dances" font is displayed in the font list.

Attaching screen-cast for reference.

dametcalfe@ Could you please look into it and let us know any steps i have missed while reproducing the issue.

Thank You...
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Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Closing due to lack of feedback provided that was requested. If the issue is still reproducible please open a new issue with the details requested.

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