1939411 - Indicate what measure font size settings adhere to where they are exposed in the `about:preferences` GUI.

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB) [:RokeJulianLockhart]]

Attachment: A screenshot of the relevant modal pseudo-window (for `#c0`).

Steps to reproduce

1. Visit about:preferences#general.
2. Scroll to about:preferences#general:~:text=Fonts.
3. Select "Advanced..."

Actual results

The "Size:" parameters do not indicate what measure they utilize, nor are their values accompanied by a short-hand measure indicator (like pt or px), rendering the values nigh meaningless – confusion already exists:

Firefox's font sizes in its settings page seem to be in pixels.

Expected result

The user should be explcitly informed of which measure the browser is requesting.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

about:config lets you "look under the hood" to where those values are stored, but it is irrelevant to this request. If you're using about:config the documentation is the source code. People not comfortable looking there that shouldn't be messing with about:config.

Adjusting the summary to reflect the user-facing UI surface, where this request does make sense. (I believe the units are "CSS pixels")

Comment 2

[Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB) [:RokeJulianLockhart]]

#c1

[e-mail], yeah, this is only for the about:preferences section. I referenced those keys because I can't be certain that the GUI shan't change before this report is completed, and thus want to ensure that I refer to everything with the most stable nomenclature possible.