498206 - Menus and toolbars too large by far on high resolution displays

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 426788

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Karsten Tinnefeld]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

I run firefox on 1920x1200 notebook display (dell latitude e6500) with a screen resolution of 148dpi under windows xp pro (so configured in Windows display settings).

Mozilla Firefox renders awkwardly large menues and toolbars and never re-opens a window larger than a quarter of the screen. It is almost impossible to work with more than one window due to the fact, that in normal zoom, almost every web page is displayed either too large or unreadable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
install the browser on a machine using a display and display settings as described above.


Expected Results:  
menues and toolbars can be configured or automatically restrict themselves to normal icon and text sizes.

I'd submit a screenshot if bugzilla permitted me.

Comment 1

[Karsten Tinnefeld]

Attachment: screenshot demonstrating the display size proportions

Comment 2

[Mardeg]

Try 143dpi.
I could be completely wrong, and if I am nothing will improve :)

Comment 4

[Karsten Tinnefeld]

> Try 143dpi.

I tried setting layout.css.dpi, and now the menu and toolbar is back to normal. Very well.

Alas, html is now _very small_, but zooming in and a default font size of 20 give the improvement necessary.