A firefox secret

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Sun Mar 18 15:35:37 UTC 2007


On Sunday 18 March 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 18/03/07, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
> > >> > The term
> > >> > "large fonts" means "make the fonts bigger than
> > >> > they normally would be", not "make some of the
> > >> > fonts bigger than they normally would be".
> > >>
> > >> As I said, depends if the site developer has a
> > >> clue...
> > >
> > > It should not be in his hands.
> >
> > I didn't folow the early part of this thread, so I
> > don't know if it's been mentioned, but...
> >
> > In Fx, Edit -> Preferences -> Content, select Advanced
> > from the Fonts & Colors box.  Select the fonts you want
> > and min font size and uncheck "Allow pages to
> > choose..."
> >
> > Does that accomplish the desired effect?
>
> Firefox has always let the user choose. We were
> discussing IE's lack of an override option.
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
> http://what-is-what.com/what_is/ubuntu.html
> http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/449/sisqo.html

Oh, but it does and has since before IE5.

TOOLS > INTERNET OPTIONS > GENERAL you have 4 buttons 
at the bottom COLORS, FONTS, LANGUAGES AND 
ACCESSIBILITY

But why are you talking about IE any way when Firefox is 
available on windblows.

Browsers and CSS are designed to let the end user control 
the display of the page regardless what the designer had in 
mind.  The is a requirement made by the w3c.

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