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.

--
Regards,
Florian


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