Firefox Icon size
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Firefox updated itself, and came back with everything in double size. I have to zoom out on each and every web site the first time I (re)visit it. OK, I can live with that. But the height of the tabs, the URL line and all the symbols on that line, as well as the bookmarks icons have doubled in size as well, and do not shrink when I zoom out. If I zoom out, the text size is reduced, so that e.g. the URL text is one third of the height of the URL text box - the box doesn't zoom. The Icons don't zoom. The big frustration is with the bookmarks bar: There used to be room for quite a number of icons - now more then half of them are pushed down in pulldown list, not directly visible. Do you have any hints for how to set back the Firefox icon sizes and height of the text boxes, to reduce the waste of vertical space without removing the lines entirely?
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Firefox updated itself, and came back with everything in double size. I have to zoom out on each and every web site the first time I (re)visit it. OK, I can live with that. But the height of the tabs, the URL line and all the symbols on that line, as well as the bookmarks icons have doubled in size as well, and do not shrink when I zoom out. If I zoom out, the text size is reduced, so that e.g. the URL text is one third of the height of the URL text box - the box doesn't zoom. The Icons don't zoom. The big frustration is with the bookmarks bar: There used to be room for quite a number of icons - now more then half of them are pushed down in pulldown list, not directly visible. Do you have any hints for how to set back the Firefox icon sizes and height of the text boxes, to reduce the waste of vertical space without removing the lines entirely?
Donwload the previous version and tell not to update until there is a plugin that solve it or a fix in a newer version :rolleyes:
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Firefox updated itself, and came back with everything in double size. I have to zoom out on each and every web site the first time I (re)visit it. OK, I can live with that. But the height of the tabs, the URL line and all the symbols on that line, as well as the bookmarks icons have doubled in size as well, and do not shrink when I zoom out. If I zoom out, the text size is reduced, so that e.g. the URL text is one third of the height of the URL text box - the box doesn't zoom. The Icons don't zoom. The big frustration is with the bookmarks bar: There used to be room for quite a number of icons - now more then half of them are pushed down in pulldown list, not directly visible. Do you have any hints for how to set back the Firefox icon sizes and height of the text boxes, to reduce the waste of vertical space without removing the lines entirely?
Hmm. Firefox updated on me today but I don't see this problem. Currently on 10.3.0 (64-bit), which says it's up to date.
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Hmm. Firefox updated on me today but I don't see this problem. Currently on 10.3.0 (64-bit), which says it's up to date.
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Same here, btw version is 103.0 64 bit
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I wondered why they didn't have more releases by now! :laugh:
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I wondered why they didn't have more releases by now! :laugh:
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Firefox updated itself, and came back with everything in double size. I have to zoom out on each and every web site the first time I (re)visit it. OK, I can live with that. But the height of the tabs, the URL line and all the symbols on that line, as well as the bookmarks icons have doubled in size as well, and do not shrink when I zoom out. If I zoom out, the text size is reduced, so that e.g. the URL text is one third of the height of the URL text box - the box doesn't zoom. The Icons don't zoom. The big frustration is with the bookmarks bar: There used to be room for quite a number of icons - now more then half of them are pushed down in pulldown list, not directly visible. Do you have any hints for how to set back the Firefox icon sizes and height of the text boxes, to reduce the waste of vertical space without removing the lines entirely?
I also got the 103.0 upgrade (on Ubuntu 20.04LTS if that matters), and it's not visibly different from its predecessor. I have scaling set on a few sites and it continues to remember that. The thing that cheeses me off about FF upgrades is the way it, without warning, crashes any newly opened tab if there is an upgrade pending. So it's effectively forcing me to restart it at its convenience, not mine. Fortunately I'm not one of the people that keep a zillion tabs open, usually no more than 6 or so. </rant>
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Firefox updated itself, and came back with everything in double size. I have to zoom out on each and every web site the first time I (re)visit it. OK, I can live with that. But the height of the tabs, the URL line and all the symbols on that line, as well as the bookmarks icons have doubled in size as well, and do not shrink when I zoom out. If I zoom out, the text size is reduced, so that e.g. the URL text is one third of the height of the URL text box - the box doesn't zoom. The Icons don't zoom. The big frustration is with the bookmarks bar: There used to be room for quite a number of icons - now more then half of them are pushed down in pulldown list, not directly visible. Do you have any hints for how to set back the Firefox icon sizes and height of the text boxes, to reduce the waste of vertical space without removing the lines entirely?
NB: this is for Windows: I 'know' how to do it, but its complex - you have to use userChrome.css - see userChrome.css for Customizing Firefox[^] I first uncovered this via a forum I frequent, which has a whole set of pages on it: https://www.tenforums.com/browsers-email/183901-firefox-taming-beast-part-2-a.html#post2280830[^] I'm not sure if part one still exists. Warning: the .css file has many, many tweaks, and the best approach seems to me to disable all of them, and then enable one-by-one. I am using about two dozen, and could not (right now) say what they all do! I have adjusted the spacing between bookmarks (the prime motivator), and keep tabs right above the window. The tweaks have survived many FF updates, but if it ever stops working I may not bother again.
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Firefox updated itself, and came back with everything in double size. I have to zoom out on each and every web site the first time I (re)visit it. OK, I can live with that. But the height of the tabs, the URL line and all the symbols on that line, as well as the bookmarks icons have doubled in size as well, and do not shrink when I zoom out. If I zoom out, the text size is reduced, so that e.g. the URL text is one third of the height of the URL text box - the box doesn't zoom. The Icons don't zoom. The big frustration is with the bookmarks bar: There used to be room for quite a number of icons - now more then half of them are pushed down in pulldown list, not directly visible. Do you have any hints for how to set back the Firefox icon sizes and height of the text boxes, to reduce the waste of vertical space without removing the lines entirely?
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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NB: this is for Windows: I 'know' how to do it, but its complex - you have to use userChrome.css - see userChrome.css for Customizing Firefox[^] I first uncovered this via a forum I frequent, which has a whole set of pages on it: https://www.tenforums.com/browsers-email/183901-firefox-taming-beast-part-2-a.html#post2280830[^] I'm not sure if part one still exists. Warning: the .css file has many, many tweaks, and the best approach seems to me to disable all of them, and then enable one-by-one. I am using about two dozen, and could not (right now) say what they all do! I have adjusted the spacing between bookmarks (the prime motivator), and keep tabs right above the window. The tweaks have survived many FF updates, but if it ever stops working I may not bother again.
In my search for a solution, I came across suggested css modifications for a lot of other issues. I was not attracted by it - I didn't find css attractive even when I was paid to work with it ... Maybe I will take a look at the css, if I decide that it is easier than keeping my glasses perfectly clean. It probably is not. But thanks for the advice anyway :-) Honestly, I feel somewhat offended when software is delivered that says: This doesn't work properly - fix it yourself. But I guess that is what you must expect from Free and Open Software ...
