A Font Size is a Font Size is a Font Size ... not in Iceweasel it's not!

[Klistvud <quotations@aliceadsl.fr>]

Howdy, List!

I bet all Iceweasel (or FireFox, for that matter) users have noticed 
this.

Iceweasel/FireFox fonts are waaay smaller than your desktop fonts. For 
example, if you limit the smallest font in Iceweasel to the size of 
your menu/desktop/GUI fonts, it will actually be displayed as a tiny 
font of about half their size. Vice versa, to get 
web pages to display fonts visually equivalent to, say, your size-8 
menu font, you must set the smallest Iceweasel font to as 
high as 
14!

I'd be really grateful if a person skilled in the art would explain 
this to me. Why is a size-14 font in Iceweasel visually no bigger than 
a size-8 font in the rest of the 
GUI??? When did font sizes become a matter of... uhm, opinion?

TIA

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