[Bug 178558] Re: Firefox 3.0 makes everything annoyingly huge

[Guillermo Pérez]

Still this happens with FF beta 3. Fonts are rendered normal (same as
other gnome apps) but icons on the interface are doubled.

This is bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394103 on
firefox's bugzilla.

I still suggest that:
- The interface should not be scalled. Text is rendered right now same size as the gnome desktop. Icons should be the same size that the rest of the gnome desktop.
- Scaling on the page contents could be useful for some people. But usually people with high dpi screen wants the things small and have a lot of contents on the screen.
   Posible solutions:
      - Scale only in *really* high dpi screens:
After scaling x2 in a 147dpi screen as mine the base resolution is 147/2= 73 dpi. That's *really* huge. I would consider scaling only when base resolution is 120-150 dpi when the human eye does not see the separate pixels. i.e. in a 300 dpi screen a x2 zoom would have base resolution of 150 dpi and things will look pretty. 73 dpi blurried x2 scaled image pixels are not pretty.
      - Ask the user for his preference:
Show a dialog like this:
You screen has been detected to have very high resolution and the pages will be shown tiny (XX% the normal size on other screens). You can enable a default page zoom adequate to you screen in the preferences settings.

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Firefox 3.0 makes everything annoyingly huge
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