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It's bugged me for a while that Firefox (on Windows 7) seems really "zoomed in" compared to other browsers, even after using ctrl-0 or the zoom menu to make sure its zoom level is 100%.
Chrome left, Firefox right. Both are set to 100% zoom, but they're clearly interpreting it differently. Everything's massive on Firefox, and a lot of things (even the UI buttons) are fuzzy. What's going on?
Just to confirm that they really are both 100% zoom, in Firefox:
...and in Chrome:
Curiously, IE by default is zoomed to the same level as what Firefox calls 100%, but it calls it 125%.
When forced back to 100%, IE matches Chrome's 100%:
2That seems like desired behavior to me. Too often in Windows-land such settings are unused by applications even though the APIs expose them. It's sort of nice to see UX consistency now that smartphones and tablets have spoiled us in that regard. – Arthur Kay – 2015-08-10T17:29:25.780