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Firefox interface font sizes are too small

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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
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Any other possible way? I like the simple firefox theme and would not like to a plugin.
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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.
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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.
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The tip from LoneHaranguer will not work on Linux. :-)
I was searching for the same. Thanks.
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Happy to help. :)
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Post by James »

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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Post by trolly »

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. :oops:
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Post by James »

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)
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Re: Firefox interface font sizes are too small

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Thanks Old Bozz :D

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; }
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. =D>

To bad 'Theme Font and size changer' is now 'Not available for this platform'. :cry:
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Thanks fro reporting but this thread died *10* years ago. Locking.
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