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I installed the extension on Linux, where it works perfectly (but I only have one screen there so couldn't verify if it would be any different).

Having firefox sync enabled, it automatically installed the extension on my mac (dual screen, one 27" 4K and on 27" 2560x1440).

It totally screwed up the 4K display making the menus and fonts utter unreadable. Worse, when moving a window from one screen to the next, it causes to only repaint 1/4 of the window once moved into the 4K screen.

I managed to have it displayed properly on the 4K screen by setting the zoom ratio in the app to 2X ; however then, the text in window on the 2560x1440 screen now all appear twice as big as it should.

If I change the configuration back to 1X so it displays well on the 2560x1440, then it becomes once again unreadable on the 4K screen.

disabling or removing the extension made no difference, the changes made appear permanent.

I use dual display with different screen resolutions, one 4k and the other 2k. I have the pixel ratio properly set for both displays. When I drag Firefox from 2k display to 4k display, the fonts on the browser is properly adjusted, but the window become smaller, apparently keeping its original pixel ratio. It might be better if the window size also be adjusted automatically.

And thanks for your work. This plugin is indeed very useful for me.

The scroll bar that change pixel ration hidden but can be used (I click on the empty white space then scroll).

I am using Arch Linux with Firefox v49.0

Hi,

I am really grateful for this addon and it helped me a lot with my current office setup, but in the last week, it seems, the automatic rescaling stopped working completely. Last week I have updated the system but it seems it's only linux and libmagic. I am on an old Ubuntu 14.04, but running xmonad as the window manager and no Unity. I manually change the screen with xrandr when I connect to my retina screen.

It would be nice to specify the value directly (text field input).
I am only seeing a (not correctly rendered - I should file a separate issue for this probably) scrollbar(?), which allows me to use 1.5, but not e.g. 1.4 or even 1.42.

So this doesn't work very well, is there other information the addon can access to get the actual DPI of the monitor?

I'm using Firefox 55 on Solus. I have a 4K monitor next to a 1080p monitor of a similar, smaller size. I tell AutoHiDPI to use 1.5x on the 4K display, and 1x on the 1080p display. Currently, with this add-on, those values are remembered for each screen, but aren't applied until you make the window active, and when that happens, all Firefox windows are given that pixel ratio - the content area and icons, anyway. The Firefox interface sizes aren't corrected, just the graphics within them. I can provide screenshots if you want me to.

It would be better to provide a button to toggle this property regardless of options in the preferences?

AutoHiDPI works well in Firefox, but Thunderbird (which has the same DPI problem) won't install the extension. Hacking install.rdf to add Thunderbird's GUID makes installation possible, but the extension does nothing once installed.

I am using debian jessie (stable) and Iceweasel (Firefox) 31.8.0 with AutoHDPI 1.2.1.

When I run Iceweasel firstly after boot, AutoHDPI does not work. I mean, scaling is not in effect.
Then I close Iceweasel and restart, it works.
Then I restart Iceweasel, and it stops working.
Then I restart Iceweasel, and it works.

This is keep going like this.

Scaling sometimes becomes inactive upon reactivating Firefox window. It happens randomly as it seems. Restarting Firefox solves this error temporarily.

This addon is awesome and has been valuable to my mixed dpi setup. However, this addon has been marked as 'legacy' in about:addons on recent builds of Firefox 55 nightly due to the transition to WebExtensions in FF57. In particular, it looks like legacy addons will no longer be supported mid-June on nightly and developer channels.

This MDN comparison between the SDK and WebExtensions seems like a good starting place to look.

It seems window.screen.availWidth is not only dependent on x (aka layout.css.devPixelsPerPx), but also on the 'manual' (ctrl=-/ctrl==) zoom level.

Not taking that into account leads to not calculating the screen width correctly.

Title says it all, I already put together a quick pull request see #21

Some websites (such as https://bbs.archlinux.org/) will report different screen dimensions. For example, I have a 4k monitor (width=3840 height=2160 left=0 top=0) When visiting https://bbs.archlinux.org/ it reports the screen dimensions as width=4224 height=2376 left=0 top=0. As soon as I click into the widget to adjust the scaling factor, the screen dimensions revert to the correct values, which means I cannot adjust the scaling factor when visiting the website.

Thanks to this add-on firefox was the unique app that can really use in my hdpi laptop connected to a NO-hdpi external monitor.

Now with the new firefox (ver. 57) this add-on is not working anymore.

Are you planning to update your source code?

Thanks for your work,
Massimo

On my Chromebook Pixel (resolution 2560x1700), the scaling factor sometimes randomly gets reset to its default value. I haven't been able to identify what triggers this behaviour but it seems to happen when switching between windows, e.g. tab-switching between Firefox and another application. I'm not changing the zoom level manually.

I'm using AutoHiDPI 1.1 on Firefox 35.0.1 for Ubuntu. The HiDPI screen width is set to '2400' and the Pixel ratio to '2.0' in the add-on config.

The issue doesn't appear when the add-on is disabled and the scaling factor is manually set to 2.0 in Firefox's config.

I'm aware this might be tricky to debug without more info as to what might be causing the problem so if there's any more data I can give to help debug the issue I'm happy to oblige.

Certain website seem to be doing weird things with the availableWidth value.

The addon works great most of the time, but a few sites (namely: gmail and facebook) will cause the tab to switch back to the default pxper value.

Hangouts, google docs, and youtube seem to work fine, so it seems to be restricted to gmail (meaning it's not something they do in the core framework)

I'm using 1.2.1-signed on FF 44.02, ubuntu wiley with i3 window manager ver 4.11

Hey, thanks for making this addon, it's really useful.

It'd be nice to be able to define my own pixel ratio, 1.5x and 2x are both too large for my needs.

I have a 1440p laptop screen connected to a 1080p desktop monitor. AutoHiDPI works properly when moving Firefox between them, but if I'm looking at Firefox on the hidpi screen and switch virtual desktops, when I switch back the text is tiny. After about half a second it sets the size to the right value and reflows.

This is on Ubuntu with Unity.

Thanks for a great extension BTW. Aside from this, AutoHiDPI is super useful.