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Toolbar letters are too small

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Rolfyboy6
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The type font size of the toolbars and headers of Firefox itself are too small and hard to read. I have no trouble increasing the size of webpage fonts and using the zoom controls etc. The result is that webpage type size is fine and firefox OS type is small.

The type font size of the toolbars and headers of Firefox itself are too small and hard to read. I have no trouble increasing the size of webpage fonts and using the zoom controls etc. The result is that webpage type size is fine and firefox OS type is small.

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cor-el
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Code changes regarding HiDPI support for high resolution displays have landed in Firefox 22 and later (bug #844604).

You can modify the layout.css.devPixelsPerPx and increase or decrease the value in 0.1 or 0.05 steps to adjust the size of fonts and other elements in Firefox.

  • The layout.css.devPixelsPerPx pref is a String value parsed to a float and allows to fine tune the dimensions of all elements (user interface and web pages) more precisely (resolution 0.1 or 0.05).
  • Change the default value -1 to 1 to make it work like in previous Firefox versions (100%)

Start with a value of 1 and adjust this value with 0.1 steps or 0.05 for finer adjustments.

  • Use values between 1.0 and about 0.5 to reduce elements in size (do NOT go all the way to 0.05!)
  • Use values greater than 1.0 to magnify and make elements larger (percentage divided by DPI, % / DPI).
  • http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config

If web pages needs to be adjusted after changing this pref then you can look at the Default FullZoom Level or NoSquint extension.

Use this extension to adjust the font size for the user interface:

Modified by cor-el