FireFox: How to set font-size for F/F menu?

Antti J. Huhtala ahuhtal4 at welho.com
Tue Apr 1 20:51:42 UTC 2008


ti, 2008-04-01 kello 16:39 +0100, Chris G kirjoitti:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 06:23:06PM +0300, Antti J. Huhtala wrote:
> > 
> > ti, 2008-04-01 kello 09:51 -0600, Aaron Konstam kirjoitti:
> > > On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 05:47 +0300, Antti J. Huhtala wrote:
> > > > ma, 2008-03-31 kello 19:39 -0700, Dan Thurman kirjoitti:
> > > > > I have looked into  Edit/Preference and for the life
> > > > > of me, I am unable to determine why my menu-fonts are
> > > > > so tiny, like a size 6 or something.  I cannot even
> > > > > read it.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Seems that my Firefox is not taking the system font
> > > > > size although the system-colors are fine.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Can anyone tell me what I need to do to correct this?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > 
> > > > Try pressing the Ctrl key of your keyboard and simultaneously scrolling
> > > > the wheel of your mouse if it has got one.
> > > > 
> > > > Antti
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > That changes the size of the font in the display as does ctrl + but does
> > > nothing to the menu fonts. So does Preferences->Content
> > > 
> > Yes, I realized Dan was talking about *menu* fonts and not page fonts
> > right after pressing the "Send" button. It was 05:47 local and I should
> > have been in bed for hours.
> > > I would go to: about:config There are lots of font configurations there.
> > > Maybe one will be relevant.
> > It may be more involved than that. No doubt menu font sizes can be
> > altered *somewhere*...
> > 
> There are two places that will affect the menu (and other fonts which
> are part of the program rather than of the web pages being
> displayed):-
> 
>     The 'skin' being used, I *think* you may be able to change the
>     font sizes used in the chrome directory under .mozilla.
> 
>     The desktop being used may set font sizes and firefox probably
>     tries to inherit these.
> 
Thanks, Chris. Every interested party should test this in their earliest
opportunity...
> -- 
> Chris Green
> 
Antti





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