"Eisboch" wrote in message
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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?

Yes, and I also tried it with the "Allow pages to choose their own
fonts, instead of my selections above" box both checked and unchecked.
The settings change the appearance of the text (font and size), but
don't widen the whole page to fill the display.

I just noticed something. I use "Yahoo" as my home page. It may have
something to do with their settings. I may be on to something ....

Eisboch

Try this if you haven't already.

In Firefox. Tools Options Content. Play around with the Font Size.
The default is 16. When you click on the down arrow you get a drop down
list of font sizes. If one the sizes on the list doesn't fit your exact
preferences you can manually type in a number that isn't on the list like
21.

I think that will accomplish what you're trying to do. As all html
coders are not created equal you will probably run into some sites that
will be too wide. Then the CRTL-plus/minus will have to be invoked if
you don't want to scroll horizontally.

This change will not affect other programs and will "stick" when you
close/reopen Firefox.




Thanks. I think I've discovered that the problem is unique to the Yahoo
homepage and how it is displayed in Firefox. Internet Explorer does not
exhibit the same problem ... the Yahoo page fills the entire screen.

If I do as you suggested, the text gets bigger, but the overall width of
the homepage display does not change, nor do the images. The page simply
elongates in length to accommodate the bigger text but does not expand
width-wise.

It has something to do with how the Yahoo homepage is formatted, because
not all websites have the same problem. I can live with it.

Here's a couple of jpg's of what I've been trying to describe.

Here's how Yahoo's homepage looks in Firefox when I first open it:

http://www.eisboch.com/screennormal.jpg

Here's how it looks after I hit the Ctrl+ twice:

http://www.eisboch.com/screenincreased.jpg

I am trying to get it to stay in the second condition.

Eisboch

Interesting. I'm sure no html coder and don't understand the different
affect that changing the font size has on Yahoo and other sites. I thought
CTRL +/- just changed font size. Obviously it does something a little
different. BTW, CTRL +/- will not have affect on images.

One thing I have read is that Firefox is written to exact W3C standards and
Internet Explorer is not. MS takes liberties with the standard in IE were
it suits their interests. Some very small minority of coders make sure
their sites work properly in IE and don't really care if they do in FF.
This may change as FF becomes more popular. For that reason there are a
couple of sites I visit everyday that I have to use IE for them to work
correctly.