Firefox text size

[stevek11290]

Just got a superlarge monitor with high resolution (1680x1050). When I increase the text size in the view tab and then close out of firefox, when I restart Firefox, the text size has gone back to the default size.

Any way to hold the text size to the larger size or do I have to enlarge it each time I login anew ?

[stevek11290]

Got the webpages to stay at a larger size but how do I increase the size of the text of the toolbars?

[Stretchman]

hi steve - could you tell me how you did that? I'm running at 1920x1200 and firefox renders everything much too small for my tastes, even with increased dpi and font size set in windows. IE 6 seems to play nicer, but I wouldn't mind using firefox if I could get everything to render larger.

[glc]

Hold the Ctrl key down and use the + and - keys on the number pad to increase and decrease text size on the fly.

[stevek11290]

I used tools > options > and increased the size in the "fonts and colors" box. Also use the ctrl and +/- but just every now and then.

I do NOT like the high resolution for the "windows" components such as the taskbar, games (solitaire) and other stuff like that. I have yet to find a way to change the size of those type of things. Got the desktop icons and text OK but not the others.

Have reset my resolution to 1280 x 768 and it seems to be better for me. I have been trying to find the 3rd party software that supposedly exists to fix the windows stuff with the high res, but cannot find it. Read about it on a Dell site but they did not give the name and using numerous Google searches I have not come up with it either.

I understand that Vista will be more "high resolution friendly" than XP. Read that somewhere in one of the Google searches but cannot confirm. Wouldn't help now anyway.

Just found something that may help you, right-click on the desktop > properties > settings tab > advanced > general tab. In the display box there are settings for the DPI.

I am currently trying out a custom setting of 150% of normal or 144 DPI. Seems to work better with the 1680 x 1050 resolution. Am going to try this for awhile and see how it looks. Didn't change anything on the games portion of windows but helps with the taskbar and also let me back down the text size on FireFox.