firefox 116.x fonts are smaller

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galen
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firefox 116.x fonts are smaller

#1 Post by galen »

with the 116 series of Firefox I've noticed the rendered page fonts are smaller, I now have to zoom to 130% on some sites that were fine
Is this a build parameter for MX firefox?
Not important, slightly annoying

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jeffreyC
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Re: firefox 116.x fonts are smaller

#2 Post by jeffreyC »

Mozilla constantly messes with UI/UX like that, things like this are why I switched to Firefox-ESR.

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