446050 - GUI toolbars areas and icons are enlarged taking up way too much space - presumably due to font DPI set to 144

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 426788

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Vogt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

I'm a visually impaired user and, as such, I set Window's font DPI setting to 144 in order to enlarge the displayed text.  This did not produce a problem with Firefox 2 but with Firefox 3 the GUI templates (ie, the boxes within which with menu bar along the top sit or the size of the tabs, for example) are huge and all the icons are enlarged from their original size.  All this takes up a LOT of screen real estate and would easily be fixable by allowing the user to revert to a non-zoomed/enlarged state with original icons and closer fitting boxes around text - like Firefox 2.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set font DPI to 144 or larger
2. Open Firefox 3
3.
Actual Results:  
As described above.

Expected Results:  
I would expect it to look like Firefox 2 (in terms of GUI scale).

I do not regard this problem as merely a feature request as the current set-up makes using the program extremely difficult for visually impaired users (who, remember, value screen real estate VERY HIGHLY because our fonts take up more space).  I therefore regard this as a legitimate bug that needs attention.  (MS Office 2007 suffers the same drawback and is totally unusable as a result)

Comment 1

[Jonathan Vogt]

Attachment: Screenshot of problem