Hello Philip,

Based on your explanation, I do think this is probably because of Firefox's cross domain policy (Most likely you have a CDN plugin that is replacing urls). That is why it appears fine on Safari and Chrome. You will need to add the rules that is shown at the answer here, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16866872/font-awesome-not-working-in-firefox in your htaccess file.

well...

i added this to htaccess.txt in public_html and then renamed it to .htaccess, but icons still don't display. Where should I look next?

<FilesMatch ".(eot|ttf|otf|woff)">

	Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"

</FilesMatch>

Hello Philip,

I believe it's best that you check this with your hosting provider. There are possibilities where your hosting provider doesn't allow you to override this on the htaccess level.

With further tinkering I found the issue. It was the EasyDiscuss module whos_online that was causing it to break. Anyway I can use this module without it breaking the icons?

I checked, and anywhere I use an ED module the icons break. Doesn't matter what page.

Hello Philip,

Please provide us with the back end and FTP access to your site because we need to check on this. As far as I am aware, the only issues that causes the font icons to mess up is when you have a CDN setup.

Here you go. Go to Module Manager and search for "online." Enable the Who's online module at position bottom-1, and then go to the Forum page after logging in on the front. Maybe you should check the front first to see the icons displayed correctly before enabling the module.

thanks again you guys have awesome support!

Hello Philip,

I am getting this error when I login to the site,

You do not have access to the administrator section of this site.

sorry about that, it should work now.

Hello Philip,

I cannot access to the settings of EasyDiscuss because the user does not have permissions. Can you kindly please set the user with super administrator privileges please?

apologies yet again. its fixed.

you're a total boss. it works!

Is this only for the Who's Online module? I have ED modules in the "Elections" page that seem to be messing with the dropdown caret on the "Calendar" tab, but I'll probably remove them as they don't fit into the context of Elections, so no need to bother with those. I was just asking in case I add something at a later time, but if the difficulty level is greater than a 6/10 don't bother, as its probably over my head.

thanks again

Out of curiosity, and I'm referring to the Who's Online Module, when it displays the name of the online individuals it also displays the number of "guests." Is this some arbitrary number, because I don't see anyone logged in Joomla! admin?

Hello Philip,

EasyDiscuss actually queries Joomla's sessions table to get the total number of users / guests online. The 5 guests is actually because there are records in the #__sessions table