Headless Chrome 79 does not load fonts from Google Fonts on Windows

Question

I have a problem with external font-face loading with headless Chrome 79 (same problem with Canary) on Windows (both 32 bits and 64 bits versions).

Here's an example with Google Fonts:

chrome.exe --headless --disable-gpu https://fonts.google.com

Using the DevTools inspector, I get this error:

There is no problem with non-headless mode.

I get this font face loading problem with each page which uses Google Fonts.

I wasn't able to reproduce this error on Bionic.

I'm totally stuck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Carsoncarstensz

Answer 1

I just stumbled over the same issue today.

Adding the following parameter solved that issue for me:

--virtual-time-budget=10000

It will tell Chrome to at wait (max. 10000ms) for all pending network request.

Source: https://mcmap.net/q/625763/-what-does-the-argument-virtual-time-budget-of-chrome-cli-really-mean

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Very interesting, thanks a lot! – Carsoncarstensz

Tried 20 switches, and this was the one that solved the issue. The issue only sporadicly showed on same machines. – Neurilemma

Thank you! This fixed missing fonts for Latex math equations in R Quarto documents – Solidary