Firefox Font problem in Fedora

10 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/firefox-font-problem-in-fedora.73798/

The fonts in firefox look very tiny to me and its barely readable. Anyway to increase it permanently ?? Am on FC 8. I can increase it by using ctrl +, but different pages are being rendered in different font sizes. Any help would be appreciated.

Goto Tools->Options->Content

Select your required font and size

Tried that already, but different pages are showing up different font sizes. Besides for fedora, its edit->preferences->content

Oho... Forgot, this is open source.

What I do is use the Ctrl button and roll the middle mouse button to zoom in.

Fedora has got really bad font settings as well as radio button shapes

True. Did a bit of googling i find i am not alone facing this particular scenario !!

Lucky_star said:
Oho... Forgot, this is open source.

Firefox for any platform is Open Source.

what is ur screen resolution?make the dpi correct.for eg:in my 800x600@85hz display it is fonts size=96dpi.In Gnome(latest),u can set font size by going to menu
System>Preferences>Appearance>Fonts>Details>Resolution=96dpi for a 15" display.
You can tweak for ur display by following below post:

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=158983&postcount=56
^only change is dont edit all those gdm files,just change System>Preferences>Appearance>Fonts>Details>Resolution =xy dpi
I found a better guide here:
*wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Display_Size.2FDPI

BTW,for few having gdm fonts too small,editing theme xml(.usr/share/gdm/themes/urtheme/urtheme.xml solves the problem.for eg:each field like passwd field where it is "pw" in .xml file.

QwertyManiac said:
Firefox for any platform is Open Source.

I meant, this thread is in open source section.

@praka123 Too late yaar, Fedora started giving me headaches (font problems, bulky updates : took 2 hours to download 132MB worth updates and am on H500). Hence i had removed it. Now back into ubuntu

yeah,debian package management FTW!