Firefox font size is not adjusting to Gnome font size

[Frank Niedermann]

Hi,

I have changed the font size in Gnome but Firefox does not respect that.

Now I have smaller fonts in Gnome and huge fonts in Firefox.

I know that I can adjust the font size in Firefox, but for better user experience in Ubuntu there should be one place which adjusts the font sizes.

Frank

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Do you have the firefox-3.0-gnome-support package installed?

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

I'm affected by this issue in firefox 3.5. I've got installed packages:
firefox-3.5-gnome-support
firefox-gnome-support

[Ilya Barygin (randomaction)]

Probably related to bug 379761.

[Alexey Loukianov (lexa2)]

Do you use any firefox themes? If so - themes can force firefox to use different fonts and sizes than the one you set in gnome-appearance-properties (for ex. MacOSX theme does it).
If this is the case, you may either try to switch back to the default firefox theme or try to tweak your firefox profile using ~/.mozzila/firefox/<your profile name>/chrome/userChrome.css file:

 /*
 * Edit this file and copy it as userChrome.css into your
 * profile-directory/chrome/
 */

/*
 * Do not remove the @namespace line -- it's required for correct functioning
 */
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* set default namespace to XUL */

menu, menuitem {
    font-size: 8pt !important;
    font-family: Sans !important;
}