Re: A Font Size is a Font Size is a Font Size ... not in Iceweasel it's not!

2009-04-28 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello *, I have noticed this issue with IceWeasel on my Unibody MacBook a few weeks ago: I thought that it was a misconfiguration, now I know it is ... expected. It sounds very crazy as browsers are very common tools. What I want to add is that with Safari everything looks fine: so apparently

A Font Size is a Font Size is a Font Size ... not in Iceweasel it's not!

2009-04-27 Thread Klistvud
Howdy, List! I bet all Iceweasel (or FireFox, for that matter) users have noticed this. Iceweasel/FireFox fonts are waaay smaller than your desktop fonts. For example, if you limit the smallest font in Iceweasel to the size of your menu/desktop/GUI fonts, it will actually be displayed as a

Re: A Font Size is a Font Size is a Font Size ... not in Iceweasel it's not!

2009-04-27 Thread 明覺
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Howdy, List! I bet all Iceweasel (or FireFox, for that matter) users have noticed this. Iceweasel/FireFox fonts are waaay smaller than your desktop fonts. For example, if you limit the smallest font in Iceweasel to the

Re: A Font Size is a Font Size is a Font Size ... not in Iceweasel it's not!

2009-04-27 Thread 明覺
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Howdy, List! I bet all Iceweasel (or FireFox, for that matter) users have noticed this. Iceweasel/FireFox fonts are waaay smaller than your desktop fonts. For example, if you limit the smallest font in Iceweasel to the

Re: A Font Size is a Font Size is a Font Size ... not in Iceweasel it's not!

2009-04-27 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 13:48:24 +0200, Klistvud (quotati...@aliceadsl.fr) wrote: Howdy, List! I bet all Iceweasel (or FireFox, for that matter) users have noticed this. Iceweasel/FireFox fonts are waaay smaller than your desktop fonts. For example, if you limit the smallest font in

Re: A Font Size is a Font Size is a Font Size ... not in Iceweasel it's not!

2009-04-27 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/04/27 13:48 (GMT+0200) Klistvud composed: I bet all Iceweasel (or FireFox, for that matter) users have noticed this. Iceweasel/FireFox fonts are waaay smaller than your desktop fonts. For example, if you limit the smallest font in Iceweasel to the size of your menu/desktop/GUI

Re: A Font Size is a Font Size is a Font Size ... not in Iceweasel it's not!

2009-04-27 Thread Klistvud
Thanx 2 all 4 answering and clearing that out. Now I'm beginning to understand a bit more! ;) @ Felix Miata: yes, my DPI does differ from the average; as indicated by your html pages (as well as by xdpyinfo|grep resol), my DPI is 129 (it's a laptop widescreen LCD). Thanx also for refreshing

Re: A Font Size is a Font Size is a Font Size ... not in Iceweasel it's not!

2009-04-27 Thread Jan Muszynski
Klistvud wrote: snip On my laptop, those fonts appear extremely small: so far, my only way of permanently correcting this has been to increase the smallest font in Iceweasel to around 14. Is there a smarter/simpler way? You can try the nosquint firefox extension. NoSquint allows you to

Re: A Font Size is a Font Size is a Font Size ... not in Iceweasel it's not!

2009-04-27 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/04/27 16:50 (GMT+0200) Klistvud composed: Thanx 2 all 4 answering and clearing that out. Now I'm beginning to understand a bit more! ;) @ Felix Miata: yes, my DPI does differ from the average; as indicated by your html pages (as well as by xdpyinfo|grep resol), my DPI is 129