The text size is diffrent in firefox installed from source-ebuild and bin-ebuild. The text size is good in firefox-bin by default. When installing firefox from source the default text size setting is the same but the text get much smaller than in firefox-bin and it's hard to read. I have try to callibre in both firefox-install but it don't help. The text is still to small in source-install. emerge --info Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo " LANG="sv_SE" LC_ALL="sv_SE.UTF-8" LINGUAS="sv" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib acc acpi alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cddb cdparanoia cdr cli crypt cups db2 dcraw dga dio directfb dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif exiv2 ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gimp glibc-omitfp glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jbig jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas libg++ libwww linguas_sv lirc lm_sensors lzw mad mikmod mime mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls nptl ogg openal opengl oss pam pcmcia pcre pdf pdflib perl png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev ufraw unicode usb v4l vcd vorbis wifi win32codecs xft xml xmms xorg xpm xprint xscreensaver xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
emerge -vp mozilla-firefox-bin mozilla-firefox These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.5.0.4 LINGUAS="sv -ar -ca -cs -da -de -el -en_GB -es -es_AR -es_ES -fi -fr -ga -ga_IE -he -hu -it -ja -ko -mk -nb -nb_NO -nl -pl -pt_BR -ro -ru -sk -sl -sv_SE -tr -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.4 USE="gnome ipv6 java xprint -debug -mozdevelop -xinerama" LINGUAS="sv -ar -ca -cs -da -de -el -en_GB -es -es_AR -es_ES -fi -fr -ga -ga_IE -he -hu -it -ja -ko -mk -nb -nb_NO -nl -pl -pt_BR -ro -ru -sk -sl -sv_SE -tr -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB
So, set your DPI correctly in preferences?
The real text size is diffrent when using the same DPI in firefox and firefox-bin. Because the use the same source for settings they can't get same size. Size is diffrent both for menus in firefox and www-text.
I had the same bug and think it was related to cairo - it works for me on a recent system.
