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firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #236949
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 236949

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 236949] Re: Font sizes all wrong in Firefox and GDM at 1920x1080

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 01:59:24AM -0000, Lee Revell wrote:
> More info:
>
> I tried setting DPI to 96 in gdm.conf. Now GDM fonts look great, but
> Firefox fonts are way too small on some pages, like Launchpad. If I
> zoom in twice with Ctrl-+ it looks perfect.
>
> When I set DPI to 48 (which I confirmed is the actual DPI of the screen)
> in gdm.conf, the Firefox Launchpad font looks the same as with 96DPI,
> but now the GDM login font is tiny.
>

firefox 3 wont support DPIs considerably smaller than 96 for
technical reasons.

 affects ubuntu/firefox-3.0
 status wontfix

 - Alexander