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Reginald P. Smithers III

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

I understand that you are a computer guru, but on WinXP it changes the
font size of the window, icons and menu's, but does not change the font
size of the web page.