Tip: normal fontsize in firefox 2.0

otti · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 64

I just upgraded firefox to version 2.0 and the fontsize in the menus, navigation-bar and search-bar were
unproportional big. It took me quite a while to find a way to make the fonts have the same size as in firefox 1.5 again.
Thus I thought I share the solution here:

In your home-directory edit .mozilla/firefox/xxxxxx.default/chrome/userChrome.css (if the file does not exist use the example-file)
and put this line inside:

dementer · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 4:15 am Post subject:

Thanks that is indeed interesting. I've always had issues trying to get fonts in gtk apps rendering just right on Linux. Especially since im old and cant see

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Sars · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 5

Firefox uses the fontsize from the gtk config by default. I also had success setting this e.g. via gtk-chtheme.

dementer · Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:07 am Post subject:

yeah sure but if you alter those sizes then often the rendering of fixed size fonts in web pages turns to crap.