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Chimera Fonts

Chimera is finally working for me on Jaguar with the new 0.05 release. It’s really nice to use, compared to Mozilla or most other browsers. However, the font sizes were all whacked out on my TiBook. Using Bricolage, a lot of the type was so small that it was almost unreadable. This seemed strange to me, since Bricolage detects Chimera as Mozilla (Gecko), and sets the font sizes appropriately.

The solution turns out to be simple, and I pass it on here for the benefit of my fellow Mac OS X junkies who want to use Chimera. You simply have to edit your prefs.js file, which you’ll find in ~/Library/Application Support/Chimera/Profiles/default/foo.slt/, where foo.slt is a salted directory name. So just open up prefs.js and add this line:

user_pref("browser.display.screen_resolution", 96);

After quitting and restarting Chimera, the font sizes will once again render just as they do in Mozilla.

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