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[Michael Titke <michael.tiedtke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Instead of filing an new bug report I found this one.

Firefox and Thunderbird default to a font size of "16". They don't tell
me that it's sixteen points (as in typographic points pt as 1/64 inch).
But if it were 16pt it would be the size of a headline and the messages
do appear like that.

Now my MacBook has a real DPI value of about 120 (even if it defaults to
96 with any OS I know). Changing the default 96 to 120 surprisingly
doesn't change anything. Screen design is, of course, always a mixture
between real size and pixel values, user settings and sane defaults. By
now it would be wise to change to a default of 120 whereas in 2005 96
dpi was alright. Please note that a higher dpi value for a monitor
should make the software render the fonts with more pixels for the same
point size. The goal is to view a document in OpenOffice or some other
truthful app and confront the screen version at 100% with a print
version.

I hope somebody will read this and understand that "16" nothing is still
too big and that the Firefox developers can't know about my next
graphics hardware so it would be wise to respect the window systems dpi
information.

As this is a really old bug report I continue with the trash dump and
admit: I disabled all Ubuntu extension in Firefox because of really
strange errors - a resize of a Firefox window could only be terminated
by changing to the text console and forcefully quit its process.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/19524

Title:
  Firefox does not pay attention to GNOME DPI setting

Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser:
  Fix Released
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Firefox in Edgy does not pay attention to GNOMEs DPI setting,

  In my case I'm setting my DPI to 120 because i have a high resolution screen,
  people the other way around have also reported the same problem.

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