Typekit troubles on Safari, solved

[avram]

Is anyone else out there having trouble with Typekit and Safari?

What was happening: I’d try to load a page that uses Typekit fonts, and I’d get an eternal rainbow beachball which froze up the whole program, until I eventually had to Force Quit Safari.

Temporary work-around: I added 127.0.0.1 use.typekit.com to my /etc/hosts file, to block that whole subdomain on my laptop.

Solution: Turns out the problem was caused by SafariBlock, a Safari port of AdBlock! Since AdBlock has been made a Safari extension, I have no need for SafariBlock anymore, so I deactivated it (in Safari’s preferences panel), and then deleted it (the folder’s in /Library/InputManagers). I’ve removed that line from my /etc/hosts, and I get to see fancy Typekit fonts now. Yay!