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Old 22-11-2007, 12:31 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Firefox Font problem in Fedora


The fonts in firefox look very tiny to me and its barely readable. Anyway to increase it permanently ?? Am on FC 8. I can increase it by using ctrl +, but different pages are being rendered in different font sizes. Any help would be appreciated.
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Old 22-11-2007, 12:33 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Goto Tools->Options->Content

Select your required font and size
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Old 22-11-2007, 12:36 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Tried that already, but different pages are showing up different font sizes. Besides for fedora, its edit->preferences->content
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Oho... Forgot, this is open source.

What I do is use the Ctrl button and roll the middle mouse button to zoom in.

Fedora has got really bad font settings as well as radio button shapes
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Old 22-11-2007, 12:50 AM   #5 (permalink)
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True. Did a bit of googling i find i am not alone facing this particular scenario !!
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Old 22-11-2007, 06:55 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Oho... Forgot, this is open source.
Firefox for any platform is Open Source.
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Old 22-11-2007, 04:20 PM   #7 (permalink)
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what is ur screen resolution?make the dpi correct.for eg:in my 800x600@85hz display it is fonts size=96dpi.In Gnome(latest),u can set font size by going to menu
System>Preferences>Appearance>Fonts>Details>Resolu tion=96dpi for a 15" display.
You can tweak for ur display by following below post:
http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/show...3&postcount=56
^only change is dont edit all those gdm files,just change System>Preferences>Appearance>Fonts>Details>Resolu tion =xy dpi
I found a better guide here:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...lay_Size.2FDPI

BTW,for few having gdm fonts too small,editing theme xml(.usr/share/gdm/themes/urtheme/urtheme.xml solves the problem.for eg:each field like passwd field where it is "pw" in .xml file.
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Firefox for any platform is Open Source.
I meant, this thread is in open source section.
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@praka123 Too late yaar, Fedora started giving me headaches (font problems, bulky updates : took 2 hours to download 132MB worth updates and am on H500). Hence i had removed it. Now back into ubuntu
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yeah,debian package management FTW!
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