Instead of filing an new bug report I found this one. Firefox and Thunderbird default to a font size of "16". They don't tell me that it's sixteen points (as in typographic points pt as 1/64 inch). But if it were 16pt it would be the size of a headline and the messages do appear like that.
Now my MacBook has a real DPI value of about 120 (even if it defaults to 96 with any OS I know). Changing the default 96 to 120 surprisingly doesn't change anything. Screen design is, of course, always a mixture between real size and pixel values, user settings and sane defaults. By now it would be wise to change to a default of 120 whereas in 2005 96 dpi was alright. Please note that a higher dpi value for a monitor should make the software render the fonts with more pixels for the same point size. The goal is to view a document in OpenOffice or some other truthful app and confront the screen version at 100% with a print version. I hope somebody will read this and understand that "16" nothing is still too big and that the Firefox developers can't know about my next graphics hardware so it would be wise to respect the window systems dpi information. As this is a really old bug report I continue with the trash dump and admit: I disabled all Ubuntu extension in Firefox because of really strange errors - a resize of a Firefox window could only be terminated by changing to the text console and forcefully quit its process. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/19524 Title: Firefox does not pay attention to GNOME DPI setting To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/19524/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
