[paddym22]

Hi All

I wonder if anyone can help. I am not the slightest bit technical. i just got a new laptop a sony vaio and I am getting used to it. i find the keyboard faster than the average laptop. I use the firefox browser and I dont know what happened but with the PC screen the font is really small, almost illegible. Is there a way to reset it to the default font size?

I am using explorer in the meantime but I prefer firefox.

Any ideas would be gratefully received.

Thanks

[rainbow74]

Use Ctrl + to increase the font size Ctrl - to reduce the font size....

[Rohag]

Hi, Paddym22! Rainbow74's method is the easiest. Now, if you want to play with advanced settings...

Edit
Preferences
Content
Fonts & Colours/Colors
Advanced
Minimum Font Size - experiment with 12 or larger

Then uncheck the box "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above".

[FooZe]

Originally Posted by Rohag

Edit
Preferences
Content...

In mine (Firefox 2), there's no "Preferences" under "Edit". I access font controls through Tools | Options | Content. The [Advanced] button in the "Fonts & Colors" section takes me to allowing or disallowing webpages to set their own fonts.

In Firefox (2, anyway) you can also change text size very quickly if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel. Hold down Ctrl and turn the scroll wheel. I haven't used this feature in a while but I seem to remember that it would affect all pages I opened in that "tab" for the rest of that session. If I opened additional tabs, the text there stayed at the default font.

I've successfully set the text size for window titles, icon labels, etc., in Windows but I think it only affects system stuff, not browser content. Anyway, I only know how to do it in Windows 98SE.

I looked around my PC Control Panel for anything to do with the appearance of posts, but there seems to be nothing there except "skins" (which affect mostly the color scheme and the markings on the buttons). If anyone knows of something I missed, please let me know.

Let us know which parts of this do and don't work for you, Paddy.

[trance]

is it the browser or the whole laptop that is small? If it's the whole laptop then right click on the desktop and go to properties then go to settings and see if your setting is too high...something like 1600 x 1200 will make everything small...try a smaller setting like 1024 x 768 this will increase the size of everything...