Long wait because of, I think, @import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css

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From the bootstrap.css:

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Dosis:300,400,500,600,700);
@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lora:400italic,700italic);
@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,600,300,700);

From the web.css

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Dosis:300,400,500,600,700);
@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lora:400italic,700italic);
@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,600,300,700);
@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Dosis:300,400,500,600,700);
@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lora:400italic,700italic);
@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,600,300,700);

From the icons.css

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Dosis:300,400,500,600,700);
@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lora:400italic,700italic);
@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,600,300,700);

From the garden.css

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Dosis:300,400,500,600,700);
@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lora:400italic,700italic);
@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,600,300,700);

I assume the reason I get a long wait on a secondary computer with the message “waiting for fonts.googleapis.com…” is because of the above and that that doesn’t play nice with the Chinese Firewall.

Any workarounds?

I also installed Ghostery and NoScript and uBlock Origin in Firefox there as well, and my CSS tweaks via Stylish. The fonts I specified in my CSS don’t display yet there so I still need to try to fix that.

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I do in fact have a workaround for this :slight_smile:

I installed the Redirector plugin, which makes it so that you can redirect things to different URL’s. It appears that this plugin may be available in Firefox, Chrome, and Opera, which is great.

I then added a redirect from https://fonts.googleapis.com/* to just “https://”, which made it so that any calls to https://fonts.googleapis.com/* are quickly blocked.

I also have https://apis.google.com/* redirected to “https://”. I think https://apis.google.com/* is blocked in China, but takes a long time to discover that it’s blocked. Alternatively, it might resolve but just take a long time; I can’t remember.

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Thanks! :slight_smile: I would have never thought of this.

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You’re welcome :slight_smile:

@DrewSSP, I know we briefly discussed this in a personal message awhile back, but I think you might be interested in the specifics that I posted above.

By the way, what browser do you use, @Arete_Hime?

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@neoncube Firefox. I also blocked *7br.cloudfront.net/img/icons/*

(The fonts issue was that they have a different name on that computer: 楷体_GB2312 instead of 楷体)