Back and Forward Button Sizes & Text Zoom

[Timecop67]

Is there any way to have the large back and forward buttons like on Beta 5......on RC1?

[Bob20737]

Right click on the Navigation Toolbar and select Customize. Uncheck use small icons and the large arrows will appear.

[Timecop67]

I have the small Icon field unchecked. The forward & back Icons in Firefox 3 Beta 5 was just more preferable to me.

Also does any anyone know of a global zoom setting for RC1.....all my websites now are too small to read unless I zoom on them each time I visit a new page. Zooming each time I visit a new page is something I'd rather not do just to see text on my new widescreen monitor.

Firefox 3 beta 5 had no issues with fonts and sizes but with RC1 I'm having to constantly zoom and or adjust font sizes.

[alterna]

No Squint can set a default zoom level for all sites

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2592

(disable javascript to rightclick "save link as" install button, drag xpi to opened addons window, or File > Open File)

Use Nightly Tester Tools to force compatibility

http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly

[Timecop67]

Thanks alterna. I got the addon squint to work great on Firefox RC1. That should be a standard feature on Firefox 3 - to have adjustable global default zoom settings for both text and images. Now if I can get the forward & back buttons a little larger & bookmarks toolbar to increase a little in size I'll be a happy once again.

[James]

Do you have the back/forward icons on the Menu bar? ..try checking use small icons then uncheck.

[1wayjonny]

This is a full documentation of what he is talking about with pictures

i have a 61 screen I use so this is a sword in my chest

he is talking about DPI scaling in vista or XP or linux is set higher then normal and firefox 3 has picked up the increase and automatically scaled the WEB and IMAGES as well as firefox's GUI

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?s ... y589408129

to where i have some more information and pictures

[1wayjonny]

someone please help fix this

"Layout.css.dpi" is a missing preference in about:config

this site game the information about Layout.css.dpi

**UPDATE **

please confirm this and confirm it here as well

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434257

thanks so much!

[Bluefang]

If that option doesn't exist in about:config, just create it (right-click -> New -> Integer).

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Layout.css.dpi

[1wayjonny]

ok got good and bad news

you can add this option to the about:config in beta5 and change from -1 or 1 or 0 and it effect exactly what we are talking about make everything go big small big small

we have found it and it works...

so i install RC1 back and added "Layout.css.dpi" in the about:config and set -1 then 1 then 0 and it did nothing they definitely broke this... back to beta 5

[kliu0x52]

As requested in the bug, could you please get a regression range for this? There were a number of DPI/scaling patches that landed in the time between B5 and RC1, and it'd be helpful if you could narrow down which one was the culprit by narrowing down the regression range.

Nightly builds:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/

The 20080331 and 20080402 trunk nightlies are good starting points as two DPI-related bugs (394103 and 424375) landed during that time... (it almost certainly is 394103)

[kliu0x52]

Someone just confirmed the regression range of 0331-0401, so yea, it's 394103.

bug 394103 was the result of Linux sending incorrect DPI values to Firefox, so it was decided to not scale images unless the DPI was greater than 192, in order to wallpaper over this Linux bug. But the change that was made was made for all operating systems, not just Linux. A hidden preference was proposed to override this new behavior (bug 424822), but it has yet to be implemented (I wonder if it's fallen through the cracks and forgotten).

So someone needs to go in and fix bug 424822.

[M-Dayyan]

No Squint can set a default zoom level for all sites

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2592

(disable javascript to rightclick "save link as" install button, drag xpi to opened addons window, or File > Open File)

Use Nightly Tester Tools to force compatibility

http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly

Great, my friend.
Thanks a lot.
My problem was solved.

[pal-moz]

>Timecop67

for text size,
set "Minimum font size", Tools>Options>Content >> Fonts & Colors>Advanced

[DanRaisch]

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