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FF4 text is so much bigger?

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ElMoro
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The text is bigger and so is spacing between paragraphs, why? Even when using CSS to define the size of the text (in pixels) it still comes out bigger, is there a fix for this?

The text is bigger and so is spacing between paragraphs, why? Even when using CSS to define the size of the text (in pixels) it still comes out bigger, is there a fix for this?

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ElMoro
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Like when I set the font size (using CSS) in firefox4 it comes out A LOT wider and takes up more space.

EDIT: Sorry, I din't realise you could edit posts or I would've edited the original instead of posting this one.

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cor-el
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Reset the page zoom on pages that cause problems: View > Zoom > Reset (Ctrl+0 (zero); Cmd+0 on Mac)

ElMoro
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Hi cor-el, the zoom is not the problem. The text just comes out bigger (or specifically wider) in Firefox 4 than in other browsers (and it is fine in 3.6).

E.g. with CCS I could set the height of the text in pixels but in Firefox 4 it still takes up more lines (there is a limited width) because even with the same height it comes out wider for some reason.

EDIT: Actually, I'm thinking that this is some kind of new standard. I just downloaded IE9 for comparison and it is also quite wide. The paragraph spacing is still bigger in firefox though.

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