Chromium does not obey system fonts

[Guest]

Hi all,

As shown in the picture (http://i.imgur.com/Izg7y26.png) chromium browser does not obey the default system fonts. In the picture I am showing both firefox and chromium. In chromium everything is big. I also tried

chromium-browser --disable-gpu

It is still the same. I am on Kubuntu trusty 14.04. Could you please help me.

Thankyou for your time,
Kamesh

[schnelle]

It looks like page in chromium is zoomed in. Go to chrome wrench menu > settings > show advanced settings and configure your fonts and page zoom under "web content":



Edit: You can also try with resetting chromium to default settings.
1) Close chromium
2) Open dolphin, navigate to home folder, enable hidden files/folders, enter .config folder
3) rename .chromium folder to .chromium_old
4) open chromium

You can also download and try Google Chrome. Works great for me.

[Guest]

Thanks a lot for your reply Schnelle. But unfortunately, it is not zoomed it. It is freshly installed system with newly installed chromium on it. I also deleted the .config/chromium settings folder just to be safe as well. But no change. Please check the following screenshot.

http://i.imgur.com/Id6UVK4.png

The page zoom level is at 100%. Infact if I click on the wrench icon now, you can see how the related menu pops up somewhere in the center instead and with a high zoom level. The fonts on the tabs is all zoomed in. It is some how not following my default resolution which is 1920x1080.

[schnelle]

Well I am out of ideas. Try Google Chrome. I find it less buggy, it is updated more frequently and has newest flash built in.

[SteveRiley]

You're correct, Chromium doesn't obey KDE font settings, because it isn't a KDE application. It really isn't a Gtk+ applicaiton, either. Chromium uses its own widget toolkit.

Go back to that font setting section you showed before and click Customize Fonts. Set the standard, serif, sans-serif, and fixed-width fonts to your preference. I've adjusted the templates here on KFN so that the first font sent to the browser is the generic "sans-serif," which means that whatever font you pick for sans-serif will be the one you see.