Re: Font changes after dist-upgrade to Firefox2/IceWeasel
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.
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Regards,
Florian
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