Why are web pages smaller on new pc (Windows 8.1) in Firefox 36.0 and how can I fix it?
I have just moved from an old pc running Vista to a new one running Windows 8.1. When I set it up the first thing I did was download the latest version of Firefox. Not sure what version I had on the Vista machine, but this is FF 36.0. Then I synced my FF onto my new pc. I immediately noticed how different it looked and quickly realized that it was because everything is smaller. Not just the font, but every element on the page. On Youtube for instance, actually on this page too, the columns are super narrow and don't fill up the screen. They don't reach the edges of the screen and have gaps in between them, and yes, the fonts are tiny. Zooming in makes everything bigger, but the layout still looks bad, the gaps remain, it's not a solution. I went into windows and tried messing with the resolution and it kind of worked, pages looked slightly better, but weren't back to "normal" AND then all the icons on the FF menu bar (arrows, home button, etc) were big blurry messes. Well, that was worse, so I undid the resolution tweaks and don't really know what to try next. Nothing I have found online really helps me as I am technically challenged and have no idea what a prefconfigdssccdlxeieio is! It also appears that most people had this problem a few years ago. Sorry I'm late, but PLEASE HELP!
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hello, this may be because your monitor has a high pixel density. you could set windows to display at 125% in the windows control panel > appearance > display. more information about that is available at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/make-the-text-on-your-screen-larger-or-smaller
Yeah, that's what I did when I tweaked the resolution. I set it at 125% and it helped some, but there were still gaps and that's when everything on the menu bar got super blurry/fuzzy and that was even harder on my eyes, so I had to switch it back.
another thing you could try is this: enter about:config into the firefox address bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preference named layout.css.devPixelsPerPx. double-click it and change its value to 1.2 (or any other zoom factor that fits your purpose: 1.0 relates to 100%, 1.2 equals 120% and so on; -1.0 is the default value and will adhere to the system settings).
Not really comfortable messing with that stuff and wouldn't that basically be the same thing as the resolution tweaks I did in Windows?
Ophilipp said
another thing you could try is this: enter about:config into the firefox address bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preference named layout.css.devPixelsPerPx. double-click it and change its value to 1.2 (or any other zoom factor that fits your purpose: 1.0 relates to 100%, 1.2 equals 120% and so on; -1.0 is the default value and will adhere to the system settings).
Okay, I tried it, set it to 1.2 and even more stuff got blurry and fuzzy. Besides everything in the FF menu bar everything in the header on youtube and a few other pages did it too. It did make the pages fill the actual page better, but the blur is worse than this prob so I set it back to -1.0.
Any other ideas?