Firefox not showing proper ligatures of Arabic

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the arabic letters aren’t getting combined properly e.g. ہ and م when typed without space it should show ہم but I see them separate ہ م.
While using Google keep, I checked font family using inspect tool, it says font-family: Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;
when I add ‘Noto Sans Arabic’ (font-family: Noto Sans Arabic,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;) everything gets fixed, but that’s temporary.

I tired to follow this forum thread, did everything as the last response suggested, but still no fix: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2220393#p2220393

Also I tried setting Noto Sans Arabic as default fonts in Firefox setting, checked/unchecked ‘Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above’, no fix.

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Did you try different browser? Or text editor?

If it does not occur there, probably Firefox issue

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Yep. firefox issue. Didn’t tried different browser but I did check text editor, and everywhere I could type in, no ligature issue occurred.

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Then I would try my luck in Firefox forum :confused:

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Yep, you might get a bit more help here, @ahraintic.

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