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On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 17:41:08 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:

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On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:17:58 -0500, "Eisboch"
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I like Firefox. Actually, I really don't see a huge difference
using it
as compared to IE.
The only annoying issue with it is setting the text size. You
can
increase or decrease it easily from the default, but you have to
do it
every time the program starts. It would be nice if it could be
set and
stay set even after closing and then restarting Firefox.

Eisboch
Are you aware of CRTL and minus key, CRTL and plus key. They
easily
change the text size up or down.

Yes, and that's what I do. It sounds stupid and lazy, but I wish
there was
a way to keep it from defaulting back to the "normal" size every
time you
open Firefox. No big deal, but it's the only complaint I have
with the
program.

Eisboch

In the address window of the browser type:

about:config

and hit your enter key. You'l be presented with a few zillion
preference settings for the browser including default font size.

I don't know which one it is off the top of my head, but most of
them
can be figured out. Any settings you change will become BOLD, so
they
are easy to find again if you decide you chose the wrong setting
and
want to change it.

WOW! Thanks.

I need to go back and study it for a while but I suspect the
solution to my complaint is there.

Eisboch
If that doesn't work out, you can always just buy a bigger monitor!
LOL

OR you can go into the OS appearance/settings and make a subtle change
or two that will resolve the problem on a permanent basis.
If Vista is the same as earlier MS OSs, 98, etc, that will not affect
the text size in browser windows.

The solution form Salty is what he was looking for.
Yeah, it does. Also you can change the size of displayed type generally
in the appearance submenus by change a percentage number. I've done it
for years.
Do I understand you to say that if, for example, you have a Word doc open
with text entered in the doc and you change the desktop Properties
Appearance Font size from Normal to Extra Large, the text in the doc
will increase in size? Not the doc font size but the physical size as it
appears on your monitor.

If yours does that, you must have a special version of XP that I've never
seen before.

Never tried it in WORD, but when I use my XP laptop and either firefox or
t'bird, my settings changes make the type size in those apps larger.
Next time I fire up the laptop, I'll check word.

I think the places you'll find the text size change will be the desktop
itself Task Bar, Start menu, Title Bar and Tool Bars of open applications.
Places like that. It will not affect the text size within the browser
window if we're discussing browsers, Word document text size, Excel
spreadsheet text size, to name a few.

Nope. On XP you can go into desktop appearance and change the font and
size of all sorts of things. While the labels in there might read "X" I
found through experimentation they also applied to "Y" in some important
cases.