Bug 1025919 - HiDPI - Firefox font rendering is undersized (layout.css.devPixelsPerPx)
Summary: HiDPI - Firefox font rendering is undersized (layout.css.devPixelsPerPx)
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 20
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Stransky
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-11-02 00:49 UTC by Alan Santos
Modified: 2015-06-29 12:47 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-06-29 12:47:34 UTC
Type: Bug
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2013-11-02 00:49 UTC, Alan Santos
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Description Alan Santos 2013-11-02 00:49:08 UTC
Created attachment 818507 [details]
screenshot

Description of problem:

Fedora 20 on macbook pro, retina.

widgets and windos render beautifully and at what appears to be a largish scale - i.e. display is at 2880x1800 and it *looks* as though screen is 1440x900

Firefox text is too small, widget/window font rendering appears to be scaled nicely.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
f20, ff 25

How reproducible:
always on retina mbp


Expected results:

firefox text is comparable to text in wm/gtk

Comment 1 Alan Santos 2013-11-04 15:05:07 UTC
Manually overriding layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to 1.5 or 2 fixes this and fonts are rendered quite nicely in FF. If not a bit large :)

Comment 2 Martin Stransky 2014-01-06 14:35:17 UTC
How did you set the display scale? I guess it's not a default settings, right? Have you changed screen DPI or so?

Comment 3 Alan Santos 2014-01-06 15:00:34 UTC
(In reply to Martin Stransky from comment #2)
> How did you set the display scale? I guess it's not a default settings,
> right? Have you changed screen DPI or so?

I changed the layout.xxx setting in firefox,using about:config

Comment 4 Martin Stransky 2014-01-06 15:03:31 UTC
I mean how did you change it for the system, not in Firefox. Because Firefox should get the scale value from the system pref somehow, right?

Comment 5 Alan Santos 2014-01-06 15:05:20 UTC
sorry. I didn't change anything for the system. It seemed to be picked up correctly with the install.

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