Comments on: Howto: Beat Firefox’s UI fonts into submission

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:14:16 +0000

I came across this article when I was trying to convince Firefox to honor the GTK font setting in Openbox.

Firefox casually ignored anything I tried, including the methods appearing thus far.

I finally got Firefox to behave by configuring the default fonts in GNOME with the ‘appearances’ applet (gnome-appearance-properties). The relevant gconf that it sets is in ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/font_rendering.

I’m pretty sure this is a non-issue if GNOME isn’t installed, as it worked without any complaint on another computer with only XFCE installed.

While on the topic of configuring fonts, I also came across this article (http://beranger.org/index.php?article=2150&page=3k) on freetype2 configuration. It’s only tangentially related to Mozilla UI fonts, but I found it very helpful toward solving my problems.

By: Chess Griffin

Chess Griffin — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:55:07 +0000

Thanks for this. Setting layout.css.dpi to 0 worked for my on my 1024×768 Thinkpad x40.

By: bautz

bautz — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:52:13 +0000

layout.css.dpi 0 works in firefox 2 but not in firefox 3…

By: xabbott

xabbott — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:38:10 +0000

This works too:
* {
font-size: 9pt !important;
}

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:17:30 +0000

That might be an even better solution. I’ve also seen on other sites where Firefox 3 defaults to the GTK setting (or at least skins them to something similar — is that right?), which is really the way it should be done. I don’t know why in the world Firefox needs to be special, but it’s easy enough to fix, so I can’t complain too much.

By: Embedded

Embedded — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:43:28 +0000

openSuSE 10.3 distributes Firefox 2.0.0.11 layout.css.dpi to “Integer 0 User”

FYI