I fixed it by adjusting the dpi settings in the firefox preferences to System Settings. Thanks for your help. Abe Felix Miata wrote:
Abram B Olson wrote Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:38:45 -0800:
Felix Miata wrote:
Abram B Olson wrote:
So, both mozilla and firefox have really enormous fonts, not in the webpages but in the applications themselves. I've spent about an hour trying to fix this by adjusting the font sizes in both the applications and in the kde preferences but nothing changes the enormoun fonts. Anyone who can help will have my eternal gratitude ;-)
The only way to know what you mean by "enormous" is give us a link to a screenshot showing the problem, but see generally: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/dpi.html
Ok sure. There is nothing wrong with the fonts in the pages that firefox displays. The problem is in the application inself.
You can see a screenshot here: http://70.56.94.211/snapshot1.png http://70.56.94.211/snapshot2.png
You can see that the font in the mozilla menu are very large in comparison to the fonts in thunderbird and the kde desktop.
Looks to me like you have set those other fonts to be very small, maybe 12px or thereabouts. One man's "enormous" can be another man's "tiny". :-)
You should have been able to solve your problem with the URL I gave you before. Your problem is a DPI problem.
Compare these two: http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/ss/Mozilla/FF70-72.gif http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/ss/Mozilla/FF70-96.gif
You can see all the page content is identical between the two. The default default 16px font size in Firefox remains in place. The difference in application font sizes between the two is purely dependant upon the DPI Firefox uses, which it gets from X unless you override it (last I checked, overriding was buggy and not recommended). My preference is for fonts big enough to read, so for me, the 96 DPI setting is preferable, and keeps the menu text slightly smaller than unsized page text.
Fixing your problem depends on you adjusting your DPI, or using CSS. This may be as simple as going into FF preferences and ensuring that the "display resolution" setting is on "system setting" and not 96 or some other number. If that doesn't fix it for you, then you'll need to adjust DPI in X as spelled out on the page I pointed you to, or use CSS, which that same page also mentions.