I seem to have almost the opposite problem of paddym22's.

I'm used to accessing PC with my older computer (Windows 98SE, Firefox 2). I'm planning to stay with it, too, but this weekend I've been setting up my newer computer (Windows XP Pro SP3, Firefox 3.6.3) so it'll be ready if/when I need to switch to it. Today I'm accessing PC for the first time with the new setup.

As soon as I got Firefox downloaded, I set the font size bigger (there and in Windows > Control Panel > Display) to look something like what I'm used to on my older system.

I've gotten used to inserting occasional comments, asides and footnotes in my own posts using a smaller font. I tried doing the same a few minutes ago and was surprised to find that the tag I normally use for the smaller font -- [SIZE="1"] -- actually made the font bigger. When I tried [FONT="Arial"][SIZE="1"], that just left the font approximately the same size as before.

Would someone please tell me if --> this sample text (1.)<-- looks bigger or smaller than the surrounding text? How about --> this sample text (2.)<-- ? If one or the other doesn't look smaller to you, does it look the same, or bigger? what browser and settings are you using? Thanks!

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On previewing, (1.) looks significantly bigger and darker to me; (2.) looks almost unchanged. Usually I'd put a note like this in small text but this time I don't dare. I'm wondering, when I've been making text smaller (to me) all this time, how many other members have been seeing it as bigger instead.

edited to add:
I just went back and looked at someone else's post where I knew I'd seen some small text -- and of course the small text there looked bigger too.