On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 12:29:40 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > After years of running Linux fonts are still somewhat of a mystery to > me. > > After upgrading Firefox some some web pages now have much smaller fonts. I'm > curious what caused that change. > > I also often wonder if there's a way to see what font the web browser > actually selects for rendering when asked to display text. For > example, is the change in font selection due to how IceWeasel is > selecting a font to display or some other external change in fonts.
I also noticed (and disliked) this change. I think it has something to do with the removal of the old dpi preference setting. In firefox 1.5 I could simply use a dpi setting which made the average web font readable for me. There is a new about:config item, "layout.css.dpi", which according to the mozilla website should take over this functionality, but this is broken for me. I get serious rendering bugs if I change the default setting of this new item. I could roughly restore the old look of my regularly visited webpages by increasing the minimum font size in "Edit - Preferences - Fonts & Colors - Advanced" and by using some userContent.css tricks as described in http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html, but I did not yet succeed in fully restoring the old behavior. -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
