[scaladev]

I'm doing this also, and for the same reason.

>It's not uncommon that zooming will make the text smaller

At least in Firefox you can enforce the minimum font size through settings without using any third-party plugins or custom themes (look in about:preferences → "minimum font size"). I have it set to something like 16 or 18.

This doesn't fix the actual problem, but I gave up on trying to change the world a long time ago.

[arp242]

The problem with minimum font size is that sometimes you want the text to be smaller, especially in cases where it's used as UX labels or the like. I used to set it fairy high in Opera (long time ago, Opera Presto) and even back then it would break stuff.

I have a few custom userstyles to deal with the worst of it; topnavs that grow to 20% of the page height and stuff like that.