472770 - System font % increases drastically increases size of toolbars (unlike IE6)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 426788

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[John]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5

My 'older' eyes like a 125% or 150% system font size that I adjust (in my older P4 Windows2K machine as well as my new I7-Vista64) display's settings.

The 150% system font resizing results in a doubling to trippling of the firefox toolbar sizes and a lot of wasted space.  This does not occur in the IE6 or IE7.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to display settings
2.Go to Advanced
3.Select "Other..."
4.Drag on the ruler until 150% appears (or select it from the drop down box).
5.Restart computer.
Actual Results:  
The Toolbars in Firefox take 2-3 times the space needed to display the icon or text resulting in a lot of wasted screen space.
IE Toolbars take very little extra room when doing this.


I have captured a couple of jpg screen shots depicting Firefox's large Toolbar size in comparison with IE6.  I will try to submit them using the "Create a new Attachment" link mentioned below this box.

John

Comment 1

[John]

Attachment: Firefox3-0-5 and IE6 at 150 percent system Font resizing.jpg

Comment 2

[John]

Attachment: Firefox3-0-5 and IE6 at 125 percent system Font resizing.jpg

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Yeah, I have the same problem, at least if you're talking about DPI; it makes the computer unusable.
Please reopen if it's not about DPI.