Why does this "Slow network detected..." log appear in Chrome? - google-chrome

Question

I noticed this info log began to appear in Google Chrome Dev (Version 55.0.2883.18 dev) and I can't imagine why.
Slow network is detected. Fallback font will be used while loading: http://font-path.extension`
It appears on all websites that use font-face, even on local pages and Chrome extensions.

Answer 1

This means the network is slow, and Chrome is replacing a web font (loaded with a #font-face rule) with a local fallback.
By default, the text rendered with a web font is invisible until the font is downloaded (“flash of invisible text”). With this change, the user on a slow network could start reading right when the content is loaded instead of looking into the empty page for several seconds.
Related Chrome issue: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=578029. (A change enabling this behavior for 3G connections landed in September; this should be the reason you got the message.)
Related source code: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/third_party/+/master/WebKit/Source/core/css/RemoteFontFaceSource.cpp#74

Answer 2

I faced same issue for chrome build 61.0.3163.100 on MacOs Sierra with localhost as server. Chrome started logging this message when I changed network speed configuration to 3G fast/ 3G slow and again back to Online.
Fix:
When I tried selecting Offline mode and again Online mode, the logging issue disappeared. (This fix may no work on some devices or versions)
Update on 30th Jan 2018
I updated google chrome to Version 64.0.3282.119 (Official Build) (64-bit), it seems this bug is fixed now.

Answer 3

EDIT: This is not working with latest version of 63.0+
I was able to disable it using help from one of above comments, go to
chrome://flags/#enable-webfonts-intervention-v2
The trick is to also disable the "Trigger User Agent Intervention for WebFonts loading always" option just below that as well.

Answer 4

In my case, it was AdBlock Plus extension for Google chrome. Turned it off and it worked perfectly.

Answer 5

if you can access to css of this extension, simply add font-display:block; on font-face definition or send feedback to developer of this extension:)
#font-face {
font-family: ExampleFont;
src: url(/path/to/fonts/examplefont.woff) format('woff'),
url(/path/to/fonts/examplefont.eot) format('eot');
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: block;
}

Answer 6

I hide this by set console setting
Console settings -> User messages only

Answer 7

Goto chrome://flags/#enable-webfonts-intervention-v2 and set it to disabled
It’s due to a bug in Chrome with their latest API for ‘network speed’. Hope it will be fixed in the next version

Answer 8

I have network throttling disabled but started to get this error today on a 75mb/s business connection...
To fix it in my build of Chrome 60.0.3112.90 (Official Build) (64-bit) I opened the DevTools then navigated to the DevTools Settings then ticked 'Log XMLHttpRequests', unticked 'User messages only' and 'Hide network messages'

Answer 9

I just managed to make the filter regex work: /^((?!Fallback\sfont).)*$/.
Add it to the filter field just above the console and it'll hide all messages containing Fallback font.
You can make it more specific if you want.

Answer 10

If your developing an app that uses google fonts and want to ensure your users do not see these warnings. A possible solution (detailed here) was to load the fonts locally.
I used this solution for an application which at times has slow internet (or no internet access) but still serves pages, This assumes your app uses Google fonts and updates to these fonts are not critical. Also assume that using ttf fonts are appropriate for your application WC3 TTF Font Browser Support.
Here is how I accomplished locally serving fonts:
Go to https://fonts.google.com/ and do a search for your fonts
Add your fonts
Download them
Place them in site root
Add them to your #font file

Answer 11

No, this doesn't mean network is slow.
No, this is not only false warning.
I have this problem on angular web applications after replace link https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons in index.html to integrated version (npm install .... material-icons...). This works, but sometimes web application show that warning.
When warning is shown icons are not rendered for approximately 1 second, so user see badly rendered icons.
I don't have solution yet.

Answer 12

I also had the same errors with fontawesome's fonts.
Then I downloaded the lastest fontawesome's fonts and replace to the old fonts.
And the errors are gone.

Answer 13

The easiest way to disable this is uncheck the warnings in the chrome dev tools
Hope this helps.

Answer 14

you can click 'console settings', and check then box 'Use messages only', after that those messages won't show again.

Answer 15

Updating to the latest version of Chrome (63.0.3239.84) via Help -> About fixed it for me.
(actually, I did had to switch to Offline and back to Online in the Network tab of developers tools to make the last errors go away.)

Answer 16

As soon as I disabled the DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials plugin it disappeared. Bit annoying as the fonts I was serving was from localhost so shouldn't be anything to do with a slow network connection.

Answer 17

Right mouse сlick on Chrome Dev. Then select filter. And select source of messages.

Answer 18

I've noticed if I use the 'woff' version of the font alone, I got this latency warning message. But if I add the 'ttf' version, the warning disapear. As I'am using a local web application, I made a tradeoff as of the size of font file.
font-face {
font-family: Rakaba;
src: url(../assets/font/web/Rakaba-Bold.woff) format('woff'),
url(../assets/font/Rakaba-Bold.ttf) format('ttf');
}