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Thunderbird zoom inconsistency must be solved

Rekursivs
Making moves

Address book is zoomable. Ctrl+MouseWheel nicely zooms the address book. Cool!
The email workspace isn't.
Trying to improve visibility on a huge 4K display took many chat sessions with GPT, many CSS edits and still not perfect. Am I going to become my own developer just to use email client? Doesn't sound right.

So the problems are huge, and they're more than one. But developers could solve them at least one by one and make app more usable on the bigger screens.

  1. The app isn't scaled in accordance with MS Win 11 display scaling settings. If the screen scaling was enforced as Windows display settings suggest, then the issue would be solved before it even started. Therefore I list this proposed solution as the priority 1 here.
  2. Changing of the zoom internally in the app would be cool, but why does it only work in address book and doesn't work in the mail window? Should consistently work on both views. If that was fixed, it would greatly help, and other options would not be highly important for a while. Hence priority 2 here.
  3. Finally, there could be an easier setting for font adjustments. Someone could develop a global setting or a publicly documented instructions of CSS classes (and a sample file) to use, or something that just makes the app adjustable for the end user, if the above are not implemented or not working. This doesn't sound like a great improvement of the app itself, but would greatly help end-users. Hence priority 3 here.

So the idea right here is to implement the above in the listed priority, or at least in the best effort order, given some of the higher listed options are not feasibly possible in short term.

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siffemcon
Contributor

> doesn't work in the mail window?

TB menu > Font size

> publicly documented instructions of CSS classes (and a sample file)

Will never happen, user CSS isn't supported.

Agentvirtuel
Collaborator

Hello

Maybe.

For information purposes.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/layout-css-devpixelsperpx/td-p/42594

If you wish to test, layout.css.devPixelsPerPx.

1 - Go to Configuration Editor https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/config-editor
2 - Enter a search term layout.css.devPixelsPerPx

An test.

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