I use my own customised bitmap font under Linux. I couldn't get the font working under OS-X, but didn't try very hard as Linux is on all my main machines.
I have it here in case anyone is interested in it. It allows me to fit 4 terminals across on a 1920x1200 screen nicely with a bit of room to spare.
As pointed out, this was normal. My favourite was RiscOS on the Acorn Archimedes. The GUI OS would boot (off ROM) quicker than the CRT monitor would take to warm up. And that was 20 years ago.
It seems to me that this comment was the driver for this Chrome "feature."
The problem as I see it is that the Chrome devs are fixing it at the wrong place. Changing one user app, when the standards state it's necessary to include just breaks things.
They need to change the standard, not the app. Until then, they've just got a broken implementation.