You might try a newer browser, like ten4fox, or Opera.
It could be an issue with the encoding they are using on the font (that's
the base64), or a compatibility issue with the CSS font tag. (i don't know
when they implemented full support for that) In any case, check the same
page in
I didn't know about this downloading, but yes, OpenType fonts are
large, so that could be what's going on.
Please send us (or me) some of the links, so I can see if they are
slow here too, and what kind of fonts they use: website-specific ones,
or more standard ones.
Then again, there are many
OpenType fonts are not really useful on the Mac, because the specific
OpenType features work only in Windows; Mac uses AAT, a different font
technology, at least up to Snow Leopard AAIK. That may be the reason
why Safari doesn't have those fonts installed.
In short: see what happens in a