I'm using the new WordPress 3.8 and I've noticed that when I leave the admin page open in a tab, and return later, I'm getting a random thing happening with the dashicon fonts used for the menu icons.  They all turn to squares, rather than the appropriate dashicon. Its as if the connection to the server that hosts the webfonts has been temporarily lost.  Interestingly, just moving my mouse over the sidebar area makes the squares transform into their appropriate dashicon font symbol.  Has anyone else experienced this?
I've started using the dashicon fonts in my theme options page for WP 3.8+ users. To take care of users on &lt; 3.8, I've added the dashicon fonts to my theme folder and also an entry at the top of my custom admin stylesheet:  @font-face {     font-family: 'dashicons';     src: url('fonts/dashicons.eot'); }  @font-face {         font-family: 'dashicons';         src: url(data:application/x-font-woff;charset=utf-8;base64,xxx) format('woff'),         url('fonts/dashicons.ttf') format('truetype'),         url('fonts/dashicons.svg#dashicons') format('svg');     font-weight: normal;     font-style: normal; }   (I've left out the base64 encode for brevity)  This works great, however, I'm getting a bit of strange behavior with the fonts. When I leave the admin open in a tab and go away for a bit, then come back, every once in a while, the webfonts have turned to squares, as if the font is missing.  This does not happen every time. It appears to be somewhat random.  In those cases, simply doing a mouseover the page usually returns the webfonts to their proper symbols.  The screenshots below show the issue. The first screenshot is what I see when the problem occurs. The second screenshot is what I'm expecting to see when things go well.   Notice in the first shot, how the wordpress labels themselves have gone to a default serif font.
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