CentOS - Feb 2017 - Buttons too big in Firefox for Linux

On Thursday 02 February 2017 10:22:19 John Hodrien
wrote:
> The safe bet is, it doesn't, and it's something unique to you/your
> profile/your firefox configuration.  Have you got an example URL that
> you're saying obviously misrenders in firefox?
>
> Does it still misbehave if you run firefox in safe mode with a new profile,
> say be doing: firefox --ProfileManager --safe-mode ?
>
> jh
Most of the pages / sites that have issues are my own. Presumably this is 
because I don't include a CCS Reset Stylesheet so therefore rely on the 
browser defaults.

There have been other broken sites but I can't recollect any at the moment.

I'm guessnig at my problem arrises because for some reason at some point 
Firefox have changed a CSS default. Very frustrating as controlling the 
appearance of buttons through CSS to get exactly what you want seems very 
hard.  I've managed to get the button looking right, but the text is wrong, 
or the text looks right but the button is wrong.

Many people seem to have gone down the route of having clickable DIV's or
A's
which from a purist point of view just seems wrong.  A button should be a 
button, a link a link.

Mozilla probably (finally) made the adjustment for 2160 lines of resolution.
LOTS of softwares need[ed] to tweak their interfaces to be usable on 4k
displays.

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 6:01 AM, Gary Stainburn <gary at ringways.co.uk>
wrote:
> On Thursday 02 February 2017 10:22:19 John Hodrien wrote:
> > The safe bet is, it doesn't, and it's something unique to
you/your
> > profile/your firefox configuration.  Have you got an example URL that
> > you're saying obviously misrenders in firefox?
> >
> > Does it still misbehave if you run firefox in safe mode with a new
> profile,
> > say be doing: firefox --ProfileManager --safe-mode ?
> >
> > jh
> Most of the pages / sites that have issues are my own. Presumably this is
> because I don't include a CCS Reset Stylesheet so therefore rely on the
> browser defaults.
>
> There have been other broken sites but I can't recollect any at the
moment.
>
> I'm guessnig at my problem arrises because for some reason at some
point
> Firefox have changed a CSS default. Very frustrating as controlling the
> appearance of buttons through CSS to get exactly what you want seems very
> hard.  I've managed to get the button looking right, but the text is
wrong,
> or the text looks right but the button is wrong.
>
> Many people seem to have gone down the route of having clickable DIV's
or
> A's
> which from a purist point of view just seems wrong.  A button should be a
> button, a link a link.
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I have found a drastic solution to the problem.  The HDD in my development 
workstation has just died.

I'm half way through the install/config on a new HDD and have tested
Firefox.
The buttons are now appearing as the right size again.  

A drastic but effective solution