Fonts too small

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devorrah
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Fonts too small

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Just this week, after an update, my nice large fonts on Thunderbird have changed to 7 or 8. It is now very hard to read. When I go to write an email, I can change the font to extra large. But when I go back in to write another email, it has changed back to where it was previously. This happening is very aggravating. Why would Thunderbird make such a drastic change? Why would you make things worse for your users instead of better? Considering the fact that most older users mainly use a computer to write emails, this is just not acceptable. The font changer add on no longer works and it doesn't work in Firefox either. I have used both of these products for many many years and now I fear I will have to switch to another browser and email client. Very aggravating indeed.
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Re: Fonts too small

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Why would Thunderbird make such a drastic change? Why would you make things worse for your users instead of better?
THEY didn't and WE wouldn't. This forum is not run by or formally associated with Mozilla. We're an independent user-helping-user community.

As for the font change, I haven't seen that in my own use of TB version 52.7.0. It's possible that whatever extension (add on) you were using has not been updated and is no longer compatible with current versions of Thunderbird or Firefox. It would therefore not be changing the fonts as you intend. That wouldn't represent a change in Thunderbird's treatment of fonts but simply TB reverting to default settings in the absence of the extension.

Have you tried resetting any zoom function by pressing Ctrl+0 (that's a zero)?
Have you tried changing the fonts using menu path Tools->Options->Composition->General->HTML->select the font and font size?
Are the fonts small in the received messages (or the copy in the Thunderbird Sent folder) or only in the write window?
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Re: Fonts too small

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I am not talking about email fonts. I am talking about the program itself-the names of the emails, the correspondents, the date, the folders. It seems like I can change the font when writing an email okay by using ctrl +.Also I used to use Theme Font and Size Changer which worked well in both Thunderbird and Firefox. It no longer works in either program. I like Thunderbird for its ease of use instead of using webmail but the fonts are terrible.
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Re: Fonts too small

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Well I just fixed my own problem. I suddenly remembered resolution from my old computer. I looked it up on my new HP Windows 10. I went to display. I tried to change the recommended resolution but it didn't work. But there is a place to change scale and layout. I actually changed it to 150%. Now my Thunderbird is perfect. It also made my desktop icons larger so I changed them to small and they are larger but perfect too. Thanks for your help though.
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Re: Fonts too small

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As has been widely reported the Theme and Font Size Changer addon expired

See https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/theme-f ... -now/27540
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Re: Fonts too small

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I had it working fine a few months ago by following instructions to download and install the fixed version (non expire). Yesterday it disappeared, or expired again, and back to 5 point font. I'm on Version 52.7.0 of Thunderbird. Someone, please help me and my 75-year-old eyes. Thanks. Bo...
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Re: Fonts too small

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A similar thread is http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=3039798

The problem is not an expired add-on. Its that it doesn't seem to work with 52.7.0 for some reason. I've tried both the non-expiring alternative at http://www.rossde.com/ThemeFontSizeChan ... index.html and the recent add-on on AMO at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunde ... rc=ssTheme with Thunderbird 52.7.0 and the widgets in the add-ons options work but have no effect. However, both versions of that add-on still work fine with Thunderbird 45.8.0. So I've switched to setting the global font via userChrome.css per http://kb.mozillazine.org/Pane_and_menu_fonts . A copy of the file I'm using is:

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gateke ... s.only.xul");

/* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Pane_and_menu_fonts */
/* Global UI font - the leading '*' is not a typo*/
* { font-size: 16pt !important;
font-family: Verdana !important;
}


That tells it to use the Verdana font (size 16) in the menus/toolbars/folder listing etc. In my case the file is at C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\w0p7q3aa.default\chrome\userChrome.css

The namespace line in that file is NOT optional. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bad_Eyesight_-_Thunderbird and http://kb.mozillazine.org/UserChrome.css
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