# This discuss forum's FontAwesome is broken

**URL:** <https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/this-discuss-forums-fontawesome-is-broken/6273>\
**Category:** Meta\
**Created:** [September 15, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/this-discuss-forums-fontawesome-is-broken/6273 "2014-09-15T22:46:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mrinterweb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/mrinterweb/32/15373_2.png) [@mrinterweb](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/mrinterweb)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/this-discuss-forums-fontawesome-is-broken/6273/1 "2014-09-15T22:46:09Z")

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For me on Chrome 38 and Firefox 32, every item that uses font-based icon is broken. That leads to me just seeing a whole bunch of squares and no icons.

Both browsers do not load: [https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/assets/fontawesome-webfont-837cb6609172c8e3f4240219b93dcdc7.ttf?http://discuss.emberjs.com&amp;1&v=4.0.4](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/assets/fontawesome-webfont-837cb6609172c8e3f4240219b93dcdc7.ttf?http://discuss.emberjs.com&amp;1&v=4.0.4)

When I look at what is happening in Chrome’s developer tools Network tab, it says that the request was cancelled.

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/codinghorror/32/3515_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 10:58pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/this-discuss-forums-fontawesome-is-broken/6273/2 "2014-09-15T22:58:23Z")

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This is usually due to a plugin interfering – The “HTTPS everywhere” plugin is known to cause this problem, for example.

I would check your plugins and try running without any plugins, or see if any proxy between you and the site is blocking the request.

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**Author:** ![mrinterweb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/mrinterweb/32/15373_2.png) [@mrinterweb](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/mrinterweb)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/this-discuss-forums-fontawesome-is-broken/6273/3 "2014-09-16T00:18:32Z")

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@jatwood, the HTTPS everywhere plugin was causing the issue. Thank you.

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**Author:** ![hourback](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/hourback/32/18025_2.png) [@hourback](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/hourback)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/this-discuss-forums-fontawesome-is-broken/6273/4 "2014-09-18T21:27:22Z")

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Is there a fix aside from disabling HTTPS for the site? Is this just because the fonts aren’t available over HTTPS?

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/codinghorror/32/3515_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/this-discuss-forums-fontawesome-is-broken/6273/5 "2014-09-23T19:17:54Z")

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It’s a bug in HTTPS Anywhere, it has nothing to do with actual https.