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On 09/28/2009 10:08 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Can anyone here coach me a little about getting a decent look in |
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> firefox. |
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> I've monkeyed around with the font settings endlessly but it seems I |
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> can only get a look where like in a google search.. The hits are |
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> displayed in a decent and reasonable size. But the font size in the |
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> search box where you enter your terms is much bigger.... It seams nothing I |
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> do in the supplied font adjustment settings has any effect on that |
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> font. |
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> You can see the window grab here: |
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> www.jtan.com/~reader/vu/disp.cgi |
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> It doesn't look all that bad but notice how big the font in the search |
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> box is compared to the index of hits. The font inside search box is |
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> not bold but is a fair bit larger font size than even the headlines in |
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> the index of hits. |
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Google has recently changed this. It looks that way now and there's no |
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way to change this. The buttons also got a lot bigger. |
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> How do you control the font inside that search box? And how do you |
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> get a reliable size in the rest of it.. I tried checked and unchecked |
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> on the item that says [] let the pages show their own fonts. |
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> Doesn't seem to matter either way |
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> I've tried numerous setting on the various font sizes available in the |
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> Edit/preferences font and advanced dialogs. But I haven't found a |
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> combination the just works for most stuff. |
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One thing you can do is painfully adjust all font sizes in the settings |
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of Firefox for all languages and all styles. Sucks; it's a long list, |
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but helps here (I use "16".) |
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