I had the issue described in the title with one of my projects. Neither firefox, nor chrome or IE displayed the font. I managed to generate working files using fontsquirrel.com and the following CSS code to access the file:
@font-face { font-family: 'font_name'; src: url('font_name.eot'); src: url('font_name.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), url('font_name.woff') format('woff'), url('font_name.ttf') format('truetype'), url('font_name.svg#font_name') format('svg'); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; }