[FooZe]

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.

[Christina86]

Originally Posted by Fool Zero

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!

Looks the same size to me, the font is different though... and both are definitely smaller than the surrounding text.

I use Firefox Version 3.6.3. which apparently is the most up-to-date version I believe.

As for settings... uhhhhh?? Is it perhaps something toggled in the "View" menu, under "Zoom". There's one to Zoom Text Only, perhaps something went awry there?

[FooZe]

Thanks, Christina. Now that I'm back on my main computer (Firefox 2), everything looks normal again. I see what you mean about the two text samples being about the same size but different fonts. The main difference is that the letters in the second one look a little narrower, or closer together.

I imagine it was some appearance setting that I made. I'm puzzled, though, why it made the "small" text look bigger than the "normal" text. I suspect this may be just a bug in Firefox that'll get corrected in one of the next few releases.

It's not an especially urgent question in any case. The other computer is set up and ready to go but it's officially my spare, so I don't expect to be using it much unless this one quits.

[FooZe]

I wanted to add that a few weeks ago I got back on my "spare" computer, the one where I'd had those text size problems with Firefox 3.6.3. Firefox updated itself to something six months (and many versions) newer and I found I didn't have those problems any more. As I understand it, Windows XP updated itself too but those updates only got installed during shutdown and didn't take effect till the next time I started up the computer.

Would someone please tell me if --> this sample text (1.)<-- looks bigger or smaller than the surrounding text? How about --> this sample text (2.)<-- ?

This is what I see with Minefield.