>You can set the default font size and zoom size in Chrome (chrome://settings/advanced then "Web Content").
Increasing the default font size makes some text a lot bigger while other text stays small. On Mailman archives, for example, the body of an email ends up smaller than all the other text on the page (maybe because the body is in a fixed-width font).
Specifically, if you set the default font size to "Very large", the text in the body ends up less than half the size of the other text.
On hacker news, the "reply" links, which are (rightfully IMHO) smaller than normal text, become much larger than normal text.
The other way to increase text size in Chrome, the Zoom In command in the View menu, is not useful to me either: when I use the Zoom In command to get the text size to where I want it, the text usually runs past the right end of the window, with the result that I have to scroll horizontally back and forth for every line of text I want to read.
On some pages, this problem occurs when I use the Zoom In command only twice (repeated uses continue to increase the text size) and the text is still pretty small after two uses of the Zoom In command.
I have not been able to find any usable way to have the text as big as I want it in Chrome.
You can't set the DPI in Chrome. I'm guessing its what they wanted to mean there.
When you need a non-standard DPI you just can't read Chrome's fonts. If you boost the font size other elements are not properly proportioned.
> And so we wind up with a browser that doesn't let you set the default font size
You can set the default font size and zoom size in Chrome (chrome://settings/advanced then "Web Content").
But more to the point, although it's obvious Google Search is trying very hard NOT to be a platform, it would seem Chrome is already a platform.
No other browser in history has had a more straightforward way to build extensions -- and, for that matter, apps.
Also, Yahoo is not mentioned; Yahoo built many nice platforms (remember Pipes?) and it didn't quite save them.