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  1. Bug #301158
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 301158

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In , Kyleki (kyleki) wrote :

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090803 Fedora/3.5.2-2.fc11 Firefox/3.5.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090803 Fedora/3.5.2-2.fc11 Firefox/3.5.2

On my HP EliteBook 8530w laptop with a native resolution of 1920x1200 at 147x145 dpi, firefox renders many fonts and images on sites WAY too small. The firefox interface itself, including menus and preference dialogs all look fine.

After doing a bunch of research I found a "fix" that was done in bug 394103 to force any layout.css.dpi value under 192 to actually render at 96 dpi. This "fix" is killing my mozilla experience on this laptop.

Please take out this "rounding" and use the actual value set for layout.css.dpi allowing those of us with high resolution laptops to actually surf the web.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get a laptop with a native resolution of 1920x1200
2. Launch Firefox
Actual Results:
Fonts and images are too small (rendered at 96 dpi)

Expected Results:
Fonts and images should be comfortably viewable at the native resolution of my monitor.

OS: Fedora 11 (all updates applied)

uname -a:
Linux mylaptop 2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Aug 15 01:06:26 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

xdpyinfo | egrep "dimens|resol":
  dimensions: 1920x1200 pixels (332x210 millimeters)
  resolution: 147x145 dots per inch

layout.css.dpi: -1

Graphics:
kmod-nvidia-185.18.31-1.fc11.x86_64