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Latest Firefox update makes view too large

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It's as simple as that.

Latest Firefox update makes view too large.

Woke up this morning, logged on & opened the browser, and after an update, suddenly all my page views are exploding beyond the margins. How do I get them back to normal?

Thank you.

It's as simple as that. Latest Firefox update makes view too large. Woke up this morning, logged on & opened the browser, and after an update, suddenly all my page views are exploding beyond the margins. How do I get them back to normal? Thank you.

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You can look at this thread:

  • /questions/1384204 SINCE THE LAST UPDATE, THE FIREFOX SCREEN DOES NOT FIT MY SYSTEM SETTING(125%)

You can create a new Number pref on the about:config page and set its value to 100.
  • about:config => ui.textScaleFactor = 100

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.

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You can look at this thread:

  • /questions/1384204 SINCE THE LAST UPDATE, THE FIREFOX SCREEN DOES NOT FIT MY SYSTEM SETTING(125%)

You can create a new Number pref on the about:config page and set its value to 100.
  • about:config => ui.textScaleFactor = 100

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.

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This did not resolve my issue. For whatever reason, this only works up until I close the browser, when I reopen it, I still have the same overly large view.

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Do you keep the Number pref named ui.textScaleFactor ? Did you made other changes trying to fix this problem as they might interfere ?

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Frankly, I'm a little confused about what I did, there are several articles on this, yours was the only one that used ui.textScaleFactor, I found one that searches for dvlp, and another that had me search for layout.css.devPixelsPerPx, the first one said to put in 1.25, the second one said to put in 1.0 but you put 100. or was the decimal misplace because for whatever reason it blew the page up the size of a billboard and I cold only see one letter, I actually had to do a system restore to return it to normal but of course I also tried to uninstall the program and yet chose to reset it and had to relog in and readd my add-ons so I don't know what to think of any of it, but for the most part, the fix will take only as long as the browser is open.

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Best would be to reset the other to their default value, especially layout.css.devPixelsPerPx as that effects the full browser (user interface and webpages) and on Windows only keep ui.textScaleFactor = 100.

  • Windows: Settings -> Ease of Access -> Display -> Make text bigger
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Okay, we have a misunderstanding.

It's not just the text, it's the entire page. Images everything. It's overly large. It's like It's been magnified. Even if I zero it out ctrl-0, the entire page is huge and I have to use ctrl-scroll to size things back into the window.

Every thing was fine until it updated this morning.


perhaps someone should do some housekeeping on these articles because their are several of them. What I got from the article you sent me, or maybe it was another one, was that this change was due to something in Windows 11

I think the majority of us aren't even using Windows 11. God knows I won't update until they stop supporting 10.

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I find, or at least for me, there is an inconsistency of zoom between pages & tabs. If I have my zoom set at 100% for all tabs, some still seem larger than others, that is to say, I may have to bring the zoom down to at least 80% to get what I feel comparable to another tab that I have set to 90%, but all of them, set to 100% is a lot larger than I am used to and inevitably the view goes off screen and I have to dial it back down to view the entire page. On some pages, my bank for example, and cannot scroll the page at all and consequently and even though I dial the zoom back in, I still cannot, or can barely see and use the log in. That said, there is a huge inconsistency of zoom between all open tabs, or at least what I'm used to, and even compared to my view of the same pages & tabs in Chrome.

Clearly, as I noted, this is not simply a font issue. it's the entire layout of the page, which is why I leaned more to initial fix which dealt with the layout, and yet, nonetheless, when I close the browser, all changes are lost and I have to dial in all the different zoom vales on all pages & tabs.

Mind you, since I have had to do a reset, I am using the barest of add-ons, however, I did install the Zoom Page WE, However, I cannot decide if it makes it easier to re-zoom all the pages or not except that it does give me specific values of each tab & page. Now, that said, on the Mozilla default Home page, the tab with all my Favorites links, I have it set to 4 rows, and in the current "default" display, I can only view 3 rows, unless I scoll the zoom back to 80%

Using that as example--that is how overblown my view is after the most recent update.

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@ cor-el

okay I think I got this. I was misreading the article you sent me the link to. I am horrible with white backgrounds, as you probably already know. I copy/pasted everything into a Word doc. and followed the first solution, and though I resized several pages with the Page Zoom WE add-on, after returning them to 100%, things look normal again, even after closing and restarting the browser.

It needed a resent nonetheless.

Thank you, Sorry for the confusion.