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D.Duck wrote:
"HK" wrote in message ... wrote: On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 17:41:08 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote: wrote in message ... On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:17:58 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote: "D.Duck" wrote in message ... "Eisboch" wrote in message ... 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. |
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"HK" wrote in message . .. D.Duck wrote: "HK" wrote in message ... wrote: On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 17:41:08 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote: wrote in message ... On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:17:58 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote: "D.Duck" wrote in message ... "Eisboch" wrote in message ... 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. |
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Vista "turns" off kill switch
D.Duck wrote:
"HK" wrote in message . .. D.Duck wrote: "HK" wrote in message ... wrote: On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 17:41:08 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote: wrote in message ... On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:17:58 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote: "D.Duck" wrote in message ... "Eisboch" wrote in message ... 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. |
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"HK" wrote in message . .. D.Duck wrote: "HK" wrote in message . .. D.Duck wrote: "HK" wrote in message ... wrote: On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 17:41:08 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote: wrote in message ... On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:17:58 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote: "D.Duck" wrote in message ... "Eisboch" wrote in message ... 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. |
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Vista "turns" off kill switch
D.Duck wrote:
"HK" wrote in message . .. D.Duck wrote: "HK" wrote in message . .. D.Duck wrote: "HK" wrote in message ... wrote: On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 17:41:08 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote: wrote in message ... On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:17:58 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote: "D.Duck" wrote in message ... "Eisboch" wrote in message ... 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. |
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"HK" wrote in message ... wrote: 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 |
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Vista "turns" off kill switch
Eisboch wrote:
"HK" wrote in message ... wrote: 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 It seems to me I had to play with that and the "percentage" setting. I'll try to mess around with my laptop and see if I can recall what I did. I'll have to experiment because I wiped the Win2k settings last week to install WinXP...but I am sure the ability is still there. |
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