Why are my Firefox Menu Arrows Enlarged? How do I fix them?

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I recently formatted my laptop (Windows 8.1 RTM) and reinstalled a lot of software from scratch. Once I finished setting up Firefox, I noticed the "fly-out" arrows of the Firefox menu are ridiculously enlarged. This is the case for all menus within firefox, including any drop-down menus for my extensions.

Here is an example:

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And another:

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  1. Why is this happening?
  2. How do I reset the appearance to the way it's supposed to look, normally?

I am running the latest release of Firefox; at the time of this writing, v23.0.1.

BTownTKD

Posted 2013-09-14T14:20:36.617

Reputation: 163

Answers

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You seem to have your DPI (dots per inch) setting set to a larger than default value, which can happen automatically during installation of Windows, if it thinks you're using a high-density display.

I just changed to a larger DPI setting myself and I can confirm that the arrows end up blown out of proprtion... it seems that Firefox just doesn't handle scaling them up properly.

So if you actually want to use a high DPI setting, I'm afraid you'll have to either deal with it, or install a custom theme.

You can change your DPI by searching for "Make text and other items larger or smaller" in the Start screen.

droopysinger

Posted 2013-09-14T14:20:36.617

Reputation: 56

Ah-ha, that fixed it. Thanks very much. It appeared to have a default value of "Medium (125%)." I set it back to 100 and everything looked good again. I'll have to see if anyone reported this as an issue to Mozilla yet. – BTownTKD – 2013-09-14T14:49:20.913

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