On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 14:55:41 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 10:49:55PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > After upgrading Firefox some some web pages now have much smaller fonts.
> > > I'm
> > > curious what caused that change.
>
>
> > 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.
>
> Ah, that seems to help. The default is -1 which:
>
> "Use the host system's logical resolution or 96, whichever is
> greater,..."
>
> So it seems on my system it was using 96. My DPI is set correctly in
> my xorg.conf (my DPI = 81) so I changed it to zero, which I assume says to
> use the
> DPI as set in my config. Seems to work.
That's good to hear. Did you try to visit any websites that use frames?
I get strange "grey areas" and scrolling "chops up" the content if I use
any other setting than "-1" for layout.css.dpi. (iceweasel 2.0+dfsg-1,
xorg 1:7.1.0-7 on a Sid system)
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Regards,
Florian
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