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When installing Firefox ESR on a fresh bare-bones Debian 10 net-install with the minimal components of Xfce, the UI appears somehow oversized (like it was a touch device, which is not the case). This and this show the issue.

Has anybody faced this issue? Is there a way to solve it rather than reinstalling the OS?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Worth to say that the UI components that are affected are mainly those which are part of the Firefox UI itself, not the webpages. I mean, right-click menus, Firefox top-right menu, as well as the cursor in the URL bar.

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You're probably already aware of these, but in case not...

In the Customize... tab, shown below, there should be a Density setting that makes UI controls a bit more or less like a touch device.

Also, the size of controls in the Preferences tab can be reduced by zooming the page out.

Screenshot of Customize tab

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  • Yes, I'm aware of that option, but even selecting the Compact option does not fix the menus size (I mean, right click menus, huge cursor in the URL bar, the Firefox top-right menu...). It's weird... Commented Oct 7, 2020 at 15:16
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I've finally figured it out myself.

Booting my system in recovery mode and deleting the file /home/<myUser>/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xsettings.xml has returned Firefox's UI to its default state after I've rebooted normally.

EDIT: turns out it was a problem with the font I had set, changing it solves the issue without deleting any files.

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