Re: firefox renders html differently on two 'identical' machines? (SOLVED)

Andrew Schultz wrote:

> The "default" minimum font size is "none" and with that the page is
> quite readable.  It remains readable up to 13 pixels.

Interesting.  For me the problem occurs between 15 and 16.  I would
guess that other factors may be involved, like screen resolution and
which fonts are being used, etc.

This problem has its origin in mozilla history, actually.  I imported
my firefox settings from my .mozilla directory (which is years old)
and back then I found it absolutely necessary to specify a minimum
point-size on Linux machines in order to read most web pages.  More
recently this has become much less of a problem, and I find that the
default settings are much more reasonable now.  I suppose that's why
most people don't stumble over this problem.


> ....But firefox certainly has no way of knowing that the bar
> moved because of the minimum font size...

Well, maybe, but are you sure?  Firefox is the one who decides where
to draw the bar on the screen, after all.  I notice that the bar is
actually drawn in the correct place *first* and then jumps to the
left after a fraction of a second, which is really strange.  FF must
decide to re-draw the screen based on some calculation that it does
after the initial display.  I have no idea what, however.