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Reginald P. Smithers III

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

Eisboch wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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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.

Eisboch already knows which setting he wants to change. He just wants to know
how to make his choice the permanent default.

Harry,
It looks like Salt can teach you how to use your OS and browser more
effectively.