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On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:21:48 -0500, HK wrote:

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

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.

I've played with that. The problem is that the OS setting is perfect
for
all other programs, including Internet Explorer if I happen to open it.
If
I change it to increase the text size of Firefox, it also affects the
display of all other programs, making them too big. The Firefox
default
text size setting is smaller than that of IE or other programs, at least
that's the case on both of my laptops. You can increase it but the new
setting is active only for the current session. When you close Firefox
and
then re-open, the text size defaults back to the smaller size.

It's more of an annoyance on this HP computer due to the "widescreen"
display.

I haven't found the text size setting option yet in about:config but it
must be there somewhere.

Eisboch

What if you go into firefox options, go to the Content selector and
click on it. When it opens, about halfway down, you should see a select
box for default font and one for size. That seems to allow you to set
and hold font sizes. I just tried it on Firefox 2.0.0.11 and it works.

Have you tried that?

That is to make selections if you want to force Firefox to use your font
selections, rather than the ones on the actual webpages. You can end up
with
some pretty funny looking web pages that way.

Good point. Forgot to mention the possible down side of changing the font
size from that used to design the web page.