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GeneralRe: Firefox Icon size Pin
Greg Utas28-Jul-22 14:18
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trønderen29-Jul-22 4:00
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I found a workaround, sort of.

In about:config, there is a setting called layout.css.devPixelsPerPx, by default set to -1 which means "Use system setting". If I change the value to 0.75, icons shrink to approximately the old size. Or rather: Everything is shrunk significantly, from the menu line at the top to the status information at the bottom. All web pages come out tiny.

I can use the zoom function to scale up the web pages - I have assigned zoom to the thumb scroll wheel on my mouse, so it is easily accessible, but I have to do it on every new web page I visit. Fortunately, Firefox remembers the zoom factor for each URL, when I later return to the site.

But zoom works only on the web contents, not on the top menu, the tabs line, the URL line or the bookmarks line. So if I want to select menu commands, tabs, or bookmarks by the text label (rather than by icon/position), I must keep my glasses perfectly clean. Typing an URL is almost like typing blindfolded. Selecting 'zoom text only' makes no difference: Zooming affects web page contents only.

On a 2560 by 1280 screen, text 7 pixels tall (in uppercase) is rather small. Icons are 25 pixels tall, 3.5 times as much. This ratio seems to be rather fixed: If you want text of height 14 pixels, you have to accept icons 50 pixels high. I wish I could adjust this ratio.

Maybe the solution is to follow Nelek's advice (thanks, Nelek!): Download the previous version and turn off future updates until they fix it. But honestly: I think of it as a defeat. And another nail in the coffin for Firefox.
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