Browsing through the Epiphany source, I would say that it is not a DPI
issue as such. They've switched from Gecko to Webkit rendering engine in
the latest version and changed the way fonts are handled in the process.
They use Gnome desktop settings in the browser to render the default
variable-widt
Changing the Application and Fixed width font settings in the Gnome
preferences does affect the ones used in Epiphany for me. You just have
to restart the browser.
There is something fishy about it, though. Epiphany behaves differently
when using generic font families (namely serif and sans-serif)
The quick-and-dirty test file I used is this one
** Attachment added: "96dpi_ff-vs-epi.html"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34765911/96dpi_ff-vs-epi.html
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small fonts in epiphany
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/56
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@Guilherme
In your first screenshot the two browsers are clearly using different fonts.
Examine the top of the lower case "t", for example. So I think the problem is
with font families.
@Felix
Like I said, I'm no expert. But it would seem that Epiphany uses a
GConf-backend to retrieve the font
I did some more research and found out that Epiphany apparently uses a
combination of Gnome settings and fontconfig to select the appropriate
font and its size for generic font families. The reason why the "serif"
family looks weird in my screenshot, is because fontconfig suggests
"DejaVu Serif" fo
