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Scaling issue after copying profile from Windows to Mac

HelloPeople
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Hello, I migrated from Windows to Mac. I copied my Thunderbird profile from Windows to Mac, installed Thunderbird 91 (on Macbook Air M1), then I tried to restore my old profile from Windows. Everything works, I can see all my emails, but windows scaling is terrible, all fonts are very small and so are windows. How to fix it?

Hello, I migrated from Windows to Mac. I copied my Thunderbird profile from Windows to Mac, installed Thunderbird 91 (on Macbook Air M1), then I tried to restore my old profile from Windows. Everything works, I can see all my emails, but windows scaling is terrible, all fonts are very small and so are windows. How to fix it?

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Does it look right in safe/troubleshoot mode (hold Shift when launching TB)?

Fonts can be adjusted by changing layout.css.devPixelsPerPx, in Preferences/General/Config. editor, to a value of 1.3 or 1.5 or 2.0 or...

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Does it look right in safe/troubleshoot mode (hold Shift when launching TB)?

Fonts can be adjusted by changing layout.css.devPixelsPerPx, in Preferences/General/Config. editor, to a value of 1.3 or 1.5 or 2.0 or...

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Thank you. Changing layout in Preferences to value 2 fixed my problem.