twitter bootstrap - Font awesome not working in Firefox

Question

I'm using bootstrap and I added font awesome through Less, overriding the Glyphicons. The icons display OK in chrome but in Firefox i just see boxes.

This is how my directory looks like

-- Project
  -- js
  -- css
  -- less
  -- font-awesome
    -- css
    -- font
    -- less

All I've modified in the Project > less > boostrap.less file has been:

@import "sprites.less";

//for this line

@import "../font-awesome/less/font-awesome.less";

As I said in Chrome works fine but for some reason Firefox shows only boxes.

Answer 1

Custom web fonts via CDN (or any cross-domain font request) doesn't work in Firefox or Internet Explorer (correctly so, by spec) though they do work (incorrectly so) in Webkit-based browsers.

You can fix this by adding headers to your page.

Apache

<FilesMatch ".(eot|ttf|otf|woff)">
    Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
</FilesMatch>

Nginx

if ($filename ~* ^.*?.(eot)|(ttf)|(woff)$){
    add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
}

Credit: http://davidwalsh.name/cdn-fonts