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Is there a setting to limit how small all web pages' font sizes can go like in old SeaMonkey's web browser?

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  Is there a setting to limit how small all web pages' font sizes can go like in old SeaMonkey's web browser? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2025-04-11 11:43 +0000
    Re: Is there a setting to limit how small all web pages' font sizes can go like in old SeaMonkey's web browser? Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-04-11 07:53 -0400
      Re: Is there a setting to limit how small all web pages' font sizes can go like in old SeaMonkey's web browser? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-04-11 14:19 +0200
        Re: Is there a setting to limit how small all web pages' font sizes can go like in old SeaMonkey's web browser? "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-04-11 10:18 -0400
        Re: Is there a setting to limit how small all web pages' font sizes can go like in old SeaMonkey's web browser? NFN Smith <worldoff9908@gmail.com> - 2025-04-11 07:28 -0700
          Re: Is there a setting to limit how small all web pages' font sizes can go like in old SeaMonkey's web browser? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-18 02:43 +0000
      Re: Is there a setting to limit how small all web pages' font sizes can go like in old SeaMonkey's web browser? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2025-04-11 22:55 +0000
    Re: Is there a setting to limit how small all web pages' font sizes can go like in old SeaMonkey's web browser? Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2025-04-11 09:02 -0700
      Re: Is there a setting to limit how small all web pages' font sizes can go like in old SeaMonkey's web browser? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-18 02:41 +0000
    Re: Is there a setting to limit how small all web pages' font sizes can go like in old SeaMonkey's web browser? Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-04-11 16:15 +0000
      Re: Is there a setting to limit how small all web pages' font sizes can go like in old SeaMonkey's web browser? NFN Smith <worldoff9908@gmail.com> - 2025-04-11 13:46 -0700

#13026 — Is there a setting to limit how small all web pages' font sizes can go like in old SeaMonkey's web browser?

I'd like to set the minimum font size to be 12. Some texts are so dang 
tiny for my old compound eyes in my 1080 HD monitors! It's annoying to 
have to zoom in to read them. I just want to tell Firefox to always not 
go lower than size 12 in my computers' updated Firefoxes.

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
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#13027

On 4/11/2025 7:43 AM, Ant wrote:
> I'd like to set the minimum font size to be 12. Some texts are so dang
> tiny for my old compound eyes in my 1080 HD monitors! It's annoying to
> have to zoom in to read them. I just want to tell Firefox to always not
> go lower than size 12 in my computers' updated Firefoxes.
> 
> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
> 

That setting is right in the normal settings window under
Fonts -> Advanced. Even Chromium has the option.
Unfortunately there's no max size. I have more trouble
with 24px, triple-spaced fonts than with tiny fonts. With
a lot of pages I use a CSS toggler so that I can read in my
preferred font of 13px Verdana rather than 24px serif.

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#13028

Ant,

[newyana2]
> That setting is right in the normal settings window
> under Fonts -> Advanced.

Also, you can disallow websites to pick their own fonts there.

Alas, that won't stop websites from using CSS to make the font appear as 
large or small as they want. :-|


A few things that might help :

1) Reader mode. if available/shown in the right of the URL bar.

2) (Temporarily) Disabling CSS (as avilable under "view" -> "page style" -> 
"no style").  It might have some side effects though ...

3) Using CTRL + and CTRL - to enlarge/shrink the page contents (use CTRL 0 
to reset).   This one will be remembered for the page you used it on.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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#13029

On 4/11/25 08:19 AM, R.Wieser wrote:
> Ant,
> 
> [newyana2]
>> That setting is right in the normal settings window
>> under Fonts -> Advanced.
> 
> Also, you can disallow websites to pick their own fonts there.
> 
> Alas, that won't stop websites from using CSS to make the font appear as
> large or small as they want. :-|
> 
> 
> A few things that might help :
> 
> 1) Reader mode. if available/shown in the right of the URL bar.
> 
> 2) (Temporarily) Disabling CSS (as avilable under "view" -> "page style" ->
> "no style").  It might have some side effects though ...
> 
> 3) Using CTRL + and CTRL - to enlarge/shrink the page contents (use CTRL 0
> to reset).   This one will be remembered for the page you used it on.
> 
> Regards,
> Rudy Wieser
> 
> 
When setting the min font size, make sure you change not only (as in my case) the 'latin' 
settings, but change 'other writing systems'.

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#13030

R.Wieser wrote:

> A few things that might help :
> 
> 1) Reader mode. if available/shown in the right of the URL bar.

Although not all pages offer Reader Mode, it's nice to have. As an 
example, I've found that pages that are essentially menus don't offer 
Reader Mode. Thus, with most news sites, their front pages (that are 
often more graphically-heavy) don't offer it, but links to individual 
stories do.  And even without an ad blocker active, Reader Mode is 
useful to reducing a page to mostly text.

> 
> 2) (Temporarily) Disabling CSS (as avilable under "view" -> "page style" ->
> "no style").  It might have some side effects though ...
> 
> 3) Using CTRL + and CTRL - to enlarge/shrink the page contents (use CTRL 0
> to reset).   This one will be remembered for the page you used it on.
> 

Or CTRL with your mouse wheel, which I use routinely.

Smith

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#13791

On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 07:28:51 -0700, NFN Smith wrote:

> Or CTRL with your mouse wheel, which I use routinely.

As do I. Also, CTRL-plus and CTRL-minus let you go up/down zoom steps, and 
CTRL-0 resets the zoom to 1:1.

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#13042

Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> wrote:
> On 4/11/2025 7:43 AM, Ant wrote:
> > I'd like to set the minimum font size to be 12. Some texts are so dang
> > tiny for my old compound eyes in my 1080 HD monitors! It's annoying to
> > have to zoom in to read them. I just want to tell Firefox to always not
> > go lower than size 12 in my computers' updated Firefoxes.
> > 
> > Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
> > 

> That setting is right in the normal settings window under
> Fonts -> Advanced. Even Chromium has the option.
> Unfortunately there's no max size. I have more trouble
> with 24px, triple-spaced fonts than with tiny fonts. With
> a lot of pages I use a CSS toggler so that I can read in my
> preferred font of 13px Verdana rather than 24px serif.

Thank you. I don't have an issue with huge font size.
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#13031

On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:43:57 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
wrote:

>I'd like to set the minimum font size to be 12. Some texts are so dang 
>tiny for my old compound eyes in my 1080 HD monitors! It's annoying to 
>have to zoom in to read them. I just want to tell Firefox to always not 
>go lower than size 12 in my computers' updated Firefoxes.
>
>Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

As well as other advice, does Linux allow for changing the 'scale' of
display as does Wunderful Windoze (at least 10 and 11)?

e.g. Under Settings > System > Display > Scale and Layout, Win 11
allows for the default/recommended 100% to be increased to three
higher levels: 125%, 150%, and 175%.

I find 125% is a good choice, and I believe Andy Burns uses the same.

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#13790

On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 09:02:53 -0700, Nobody wrote:

> As well as other advice, does Linux allow for changing the 'scale' of
> display as does Wunderful Windoze (at least 10 and 11)?

This is a function of the GUI, not the Linux kernel. And as you may know, 
in Linux distros, the GUI is a separate modular layer, which can be 
replaced by any of a range of choices, or removed altogether.

I just checked KDE Plasma on my main machine, and that lets me set scaling 
in 5% increments by clicking, but I think I can get down to 1% by typing 
in the scale box.

On my laptop, with its smaller screen, I have the scaling set to 125%.

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#13032

On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:43:57 -0000 (UTC), Ant wrote:

> I'd like to set the minimum font size to be 12. Some texts are so dang
> tiny for my old compound eyes in my 1080 HD monitors! It's annoying to
> have to zoom in to read them. I just want to tell Firefox to always not
> go lower than size 12 in my computers' updated Firefoxes.
> 
> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

Could you set your monitor to use a lower resolution, with the same aspect 
ratio? This seems to work better than using a browser setting.

I like to use a small laptop. The one I have has a default monitor 
resolution of 1920*1080. I find the text too small to read easily, so I 
have changed the resolution to 1600*900.

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#13040

Mark Lloyd wrote:
> Could you set your monitor to use a lower resolution, with the same aspect
> ratio? This seems to work better than using a browser setting.
> 
> I like to use a small laptop. The one I have has a default monitor
> resolution of 1920*1080. I find the text too small to read easily, so I
> have changed the resolution to 1600*900.

Besides going to a lower resolution, changing the scale to a larger size 
(say, 125%) may adequately produce larger size without sacrificing the 
sharpness of the higher resolution.

In Windows, the scale setting is right next to the resolution setting.

Smith

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