24662 - [dogfood] changing font dpi setting makes font size irreparably illegible

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 24830

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect, P1)

Description

[german]

I fiddled with my font settings once, changing them from 96 dpi in prefs to 72
dpi. As a result, the font display became very small, and now no matter what
value enter, it stays that small. This is bad, since it renders pages
unreadible. Also any ender widget now renders very small (see screenshot attached)

Comment 1

[german]

Attachment: screenshot shwoing the fonts I get with any setting on win98

Comment 2

[leger]

Putting on pdt+ radar.

Comment 3

[don]

Matt, is this something McAfee can fix instead of you?

Comment 4

[Lance Braud]

This is the same bug as #24343.  Even a restart doesn't fix this problem. I had
to delete everything under /mozProfile for it to start rendering the fonts
correctly again.

Comment 5

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

thats cos the pref is set. you need to physically remove it from the prefs file 
to get rid of the small font. the pref to look for is 
"browser.screen_resolution"

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

this looks like a dup of 24830, which [in spite of this later bug #] seems to be
the source of this particular issue. 24830 has also been labelled as dogfood and
is on the PDT+ and beta1 radars.

if this is a separate issue, do reopen with a description as to why. :-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24830 ***

Comment 7

[Richard Zach]

Yes the reason is not that you screwed up screen_resolution, because the Prefs
UI doesn't change *that* when you hit OK.  But it does change the default font
size to 8pt which is not right.  Verified duplicate.

Comment 8

[leger]

Bulk move of all Pref UI component bugs to new Preferences component.  Pref UI 
component will be deleted.