Firefox interface font sizes are too small
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Firefox interface font sizes are too small
Hi, my firefox browser's font sizes are too small. I know what your thinking, its not the actual website font sizes but the interface font sizes. For example, the titles of any tabs I open are very small and I have to squint to read. the address bar, where the URL is located, is a very small text thats hard for me too read. The File | Edit | View | Go | Bookmarks | Tools | Help options at the menu bar are very small text as well. How do I increase the text sizes for the interface?
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The easiest way is to use a theme with big fonts. There are several available, including the SphereGnome set and HiVisGnome. See some of them here https://addons.mozilla.org/themes/showl ... gory=Large
I don't know how to do any of this stuff, I just hire the guys that do
Have you considered reading the HELP folder. Right there on your menu bar.
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Have you considered reading the HELP folder. Right there on your menu bar.
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Rt. click on your destop>Rt. click propertys>click the appearence tab>click extra large fonts. This is what I did so i did not have to mess with chrome, config, or extensions. Works great,WinXpsp2 Fx 1.07
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It's not a plugin. Firefox is designed to have its user interface modified via chrome - this is what a theme does. You could make the alterations yourself if you were confident to modify your profile's UserChrome.css http://kb.mozillazine.org/UserChrome.cs ... ontent.css Otherwise the recommended way to do it is to use a theme.
I don't know how to do any of this stuff, I just hire the guys that do
Have you considered reading the HELP folder. Right there on your menu bar.
Image by Juniper http onic.net/~daylight/ - Xmas special by Ol Grumpy
Have you considered reading the HELP folder. Right there on your menu bar.
Image by Juniper http onic.net/~daylight/ - Xmas special by Ol Grumpy
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hellene wrote:It's not a plugin. Firefox is designed to have its user interface modified via chrome - this is what a theme does. You could make the alterations yourself if you were confident to modify your profile's UserChrome.css http://kb.mozillazine.org/UserChrome.cs ... ontent.css Otherwise the recommended way to do it is to use a theme.
Add to userChrome.css. Adjust to your liking.
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/* Browser Fonts */
menubar, menubutton, menulist, menu, menuitem, textbox,
toolbar, .tab-text, tree, tooltip, sidebarheader, statusbar {
font-size: 9pt !important;
font-family: Times New Roman !important; }
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Thanks bozz - I knew someone would come along with the code snippet.
LoneHaranguer, I'm always a bit wary of allowing Windows to modify the way Firefox looks. I've seen disastrous effects reported previously, but if it worked for you then johnation may care to try it.
LoneHaranguer, I'm always a bit wary of allowing Windows to modify the way Firefox looks. I've seen disastrous effects reported previously, but if it worked for you then johnation may care to try it.
I don't know how to do any of this stuff, I just hire the guys that do
Have you considered reading the HELP folder. Right there on your menu bar.
Image by Juniper http onic.net/~daylight/ - Xmas special by Ol Grumpy
Have you considered reading the HELP folder. Right there on your menu bar.
Image by Juniper http onic.net/~daylight/ - Xmas special by Ol Grumpy
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The tip from LoneHaranguer will not work on Linux.
I was searching for the same. Thanks.
I was searching for the same. Thanks.
Think for yourself. Otherwise you have to believe what other people tell you.
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Constitution says: One man, one vote. Supreme court says: One dollar, one vote.
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trolly wrote:The tip from LoneHaranguer will not work on Linux.
I was searching for the same. Thanks.
Or if you have the GNOME Control Center you could go to Fonts Preferences and change the Application font/size since Firefox is a GNOME app on linux.
Otherwise you could.
gtk-font-name = "YourFontName FontSize"
so with something like "Sans 10" in the quotes,
into the file ~/.gtkrc-2.0
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Thanks, James.
I'm running KDE (is KDE Gnome based?). I took a closer look at the settings in the "Control Center". There are options to change the font size. I'm a bit lazy to check all options before i really need them.
I'm running KDE (is KDE Gnome based?). I took a closer look at the settings in the "Control Center". There are options to change the font size. I'm a bit lazy to check all options before i really need them.
Think for yourself. Otherwise you have to believe what other people tell you.
A society based on individualism is an oxymoron. || Freedom is at first the freedom to starve.
Constitution says: One man, one vote. Supreme court says: One dollar, one vote.
A society based on individualism is an oxymoron. || Freedom is at first the freedom to starve.
Constitution says: One man, one vote. Supreme court says: One dollar, one vote.
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Firefox will not be affected by the KDE control module, but it will/can be changed in the GNOME Control Center since Firefox is a GNOME application, if you prefer the GUI way of changing the fonts.
KDE and GNOME are two diffrent desktops so to speak.
I'm using GNOME 2.12.0 : http://www.gnome.org/ http://www.gnome-look.org/ http://www.gnomedesktop.org/
KDE would be http://www.kde.org/ http://www.kde-look.org/ http://www.kde-apps.org/ for example.
There are other windowmanagers like Xfce, iceWM, Blackbox, Fluxbox, WindowMaker, etc. I used to use Xfce and iceWM a fair bit and diffrent versions of KDE tended to be a memory hog on my machine compared to the others.
It is Edit->Preferences on Linux due to the GNOME HIG as to why it is not Tools->Options in Firefox. (<-page may not load in right spot first time)
KDE and GNOME are two diffrent desktops so to speak.
I'm using GNOME 2.12.0 : http://www.gnome.org/ http://www.gnome-look.org/ http://www.gnomedesktop.org/
KDE would be http://www.kde.org/ http://www.kde-look.org/ http://www.kde-apps.org/ for example.
There are other windowmanagers like Xfce, iceWM, Blackbox, Fluxbox, WindowMaker, etc. I used to use Xfce and iceWM a fair bit and diffrent versions of KDE tended to be a memory hog on my machine compared to the others.
It is Edit->Preferences on Linux due to the GNOME HIG as to why it is not Tools->Options in Firefox. (<-page may not load in right spot first time)
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Re: Firefox interface font sizes are too small
Thanks Old Bozz
Add to userChrome.css.
Wow I just found this and used it to make interface fonts (NOT web page fonts) bigger in Firefox 44.0. This is in Linux distro OpenMandriva Lx 3 Alpha. As you can see I did modify the code for font size and used a different font.
To bad 'Theme Font and size changer' is now 'Not available for this platform'.
Add to userChrome.css.
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/* Browser Fonts */
menubar, menubutton, menulist, menu, menuitem, textbox,
toolbar, .tab-text, tree, tooltip, sidebarheader, statusbar {
font-size: 13pt !important;
font-family: Bitstream Vera Sans !important; }
To bad 'Theme Font and size changer' is now 'Not available for this platform'.
Thanks,
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Re: Firefox interface font sizes are too small
Thanks fro reporting but this thread died *10* years ago. Locking.
Think for yourself. Otherwise you have to believe what other people tell you.
A society based on individualism is an oxymoron. || Freedom is at first the freedom to starve.
Constitution says: One man, one vote. Supreme court says: One dollar, one vote.
A society based on individualism is an oxymoron. || Freedom is at first the freedom to starve.
Constitution says: One man, one vote. Supreme court says: One dollar, one vote.