Firefox fonts in KDE extremely tiny

I'm experiencing what seems to be a pretty common problem with the firefox fonts appearing really small in KDE. I've tried several things: Installed gtk-qt-engine --> That makes gtk apps look better in kde, but doesn't solve the firefox font problem. I've also tried altering the fonts and dpi in the firefox setttings as well. When I start x with
startx -- -dpi 96
That seems to blow up the fonts and firefox does appear much better. However, is there a cleaner way to do this? My dpi is listing at 72 right now.

Yes, that's because of pango.
I used to experience the small fonts, but after I set MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO to 1 the fonts were bigger. In addition, I think the small fonts are better.

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