All I could find was an article at
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/05/firefox-38-arrives-with-tab-based-
preferences-ruby-character-support which mentions near the end:

"Improved HiDPI on Linux, with scale now set by DPI (previously
defaulted to 1)".

They don't really explain that and it seems to conflict with your
comment that "Firefox has been set to use the system default for a long
time... since Trusty was installed on this system, actually. Prior to
version 38, -1 had the same effect as the 1.0 setting you suggested."
Perhaps that preference was actually ignored/overridden until Firefox
38?  I don't know.

I don't need to adjust the layout.css.devPixelsPerPx preference on my
system.  When I open a command prompt and type "xdpyinfo | grep dots" I
get the result "resolution:    96x96 dots per inch".  What do you get?

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