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  all at a sudden Firefox "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> - 2016-04-29 01:50 +0200
    Re: all at a sudden Firefox John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-04-29 02:30 +0200
      Re: all at a sudden Firefox "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> - 2016-04-29 04:20 +0200
        Re: all at a sudden Firefox John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-04-29 04:50 +0200
          Re: all at a sudden Firefox "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 07:20 +0200
        Re: all at a sudden Firefox Michael <mikethompson@gmx.co.uk> - 2016-04-29 08:10 +0200
          Re: all at a sudden Firefox John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-04-29 14:30 +0200
            Re: all at a sudden Firefox John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-04-29 17:00 +0200
              Re: all at a sudden Firefox John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-04-29 18:00 +0200
            Re: all at a sudden Firefox "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 07:40 +0200
          Re: all at a sudden Firefox "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 07:30 +0200
    Re: all at a sudden Firefox Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-04-29 04:40 +0200
    Re: all at a sudden Firefox Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-04-29 07:00 +0200
    Re: all at a sudden Firefox "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 07:40 +0200
      Re: all at a sudden Firefox Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-05-01 11:20 +0200
        Re: Fwd: ramsi.azaiez_Pedophile_alert_in_your_area_ Ramsi Azaiez <ramsi.azaiez@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 14:40 +0200
        Re: Fwd: kencunninghan_Pedophile_alert_in_your_area_ Ken Cunningham <kencunninghan@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 14:50 +0200
          Re: Fwd: kencunninghan_Pedophile_alert_in_your_area_ Ken Cunningham <kencunninghan@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 15:40 +0200
          Re: Fwd: kencunninghan_Pedophile_alert_in_your_area_ Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-05-01 16:50 +0200
            Re: Fwd: kencunninghan Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 17:00 +0200
              Re: Fwd: kencunninghan "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-05-01 22:30 +0200
                Re: Fwd: kencunninghan <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-05-02 09:00 +0200
          Re: -- SPAM --Re: Fwd: kencunninghan_Pedophile_alert_in_your_area_ Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2016-05-01 22:50 +0200
        Re: Fwd: bobanovicr_Pedophile_alert_in_your_area_ robert bobanovic <bobanovicr@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 14:50 +0200
          Re: -- SPAM --Re: Fwd: bobanovicr_Pedophile_alert_in_your_area_ Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2016-05-01 22:50 +0200
        Re: Fwd: glimmerman66_Pedophile_alert_in_your_area_ Michael Misener <glimmerman66@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 15:10 +0200
        Re: Fwd: sdillon141_Pedophile_aIert_in_your_area_ Scott Dillon <sdillon141@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 15:10 +0200
        Re: Fwd: Lisa_Pedophile_aIert_in_your_area_ Lisa Pickett <lpickett1169@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 15:20 +0200
        Re: Fwd: dariustsukiumi_Pedophile_alert_in_your_area_ Darius Tsukiumi <dariustsukiumi@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 17:10 +0200
        Re: all at a sudden Firefox "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 20:10 +0200
          Re: all at a sudden Firefox John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-05-01 20:20 +0200
          Re: all at a sudden Firefox Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-05-01 20:50 +0200
            Re: all at a sudden Firefox Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 21:50 +0200
              Re: all at a sudden Firefox cbannister@slingshot.co.nz - 2016-05-10 21:10 +0200
                Re: all at a sudden Firefox "John L. Ries" <jries@salford-systems.com> - 2016-05-10 21:20 +0200
                  Re: all at a sudden Firefox Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-05-10 21:40 +0200
                  Re: all at a sudden Firefox Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-11 00:10 +0200
          Re: all at a sudden Firefox Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2016-05-02 03:40 +0200
            Re: all at a sudden Firefox Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-02 10:20 +0200
        Re: Fwd: williampinnetti_Pedophile_aIert_in_your_area_ William Pinnetti <williampinnetti@gmail.com> - 2016-05-02 00:10 +0200
      Re: all at a sudden Firefox John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-05-01 14:50 +0200
        Re: all at a sudden Firefox "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 21:20 +0200
          Re: all at a sudden Firefox Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-05-02 00:50 +0200
            Re: all at a sudden Firefox "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> - 2016-05-02 01:30 +0200
              Re: all at a sudden Firefox Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2016-05-02 12:30 +0200

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#167186 — all at a sudden Firefox

All at a sudden Firefox started opening all websites with tiny fonts. I 
have to hit Ctl++ several times on each new page to be able to reed it.

The only thing changed before the problem showed up - Google Chrome was 
updated to the latest version via apt-get. No other changes to the system 
were made.

I've no idea what's happened and how to get rid of the problem. Cleaned 
cache, history, cookies - all in wain. It's dead boring to keep hitting 
Ctl++ on each page.

Anybody? Suggestions?

Thanks

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#167187

Juan R. de Silva writes:
> All at a sudden Firefox started opening all websites with tiny
> fonts. I have to hit Ctl++ several times on each new page to be able
> to reed it.

Go to Menu->Preferences->Content and set your font sizes.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA

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#167189

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:28:14 -0500, John Hasler wrote:

> Juan R. de Silva writes:
>> All at a sudden Firefox started opening all websites with tiny fonts. I
>> have to hit Ctl++ several times on each new page to be able to reed it.
> 
> Go to Menu->Preferences->Content and set your font sizes.

Well, do you really think I would make a post without checking such an 
obvious thing first?

The default font sizes (serif, 16) are there. Nevertheless, all new pages 
open with something looking like 8 or 10, no bigger. This is the problem.

As I said in the original post - no changes were introduced neither to 
the system nor to Firefox. It just happened exactly as I said "all at a 
sudden", without an apparent reason.

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#167191

Juan R. de Silva writes:
> Well, do you really think I would make a post without checking such an
> obvious thing first?

Well, not knowing you, yes.  Why should I be the only one to ever overlook
the obvious?

> The default font sizes (serif, 16) are there. Nevertheless, all new pages 
> open with something looking like 8 or 10, no bigger. This is the
> problem.

And the minimum font size at Menu->Preferences->Content->Advanced ?
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA

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#167272

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:41:16 -0500, John Hasler wrote:

> Juan R. de Silva writes:
>> Well, do you really think I would make a post without checking such an
>> obvious thing first?
> 
> Well, not knowing you, yes.  Why should I be the only one to ever
> overlook the obvious?

Yes, it is a good reason. My apology to you.

>> The default font sizes (serif, 16) are there. Nevertheless, all new
>> pages open with something looking like 8 or 10, no bigger. This is the
>> problem.
> 
> And the minimum font size at Menu->Preferences->Content->Advanced ?

The minimum font size there was set to "none". Set it to 12 right now 
without any help. Still having the same problem.

Funny thing is - I'm running Debian Jessie on my desktop and on my 
laptop. The problem appeared on laptop top only. Desktop is just fine. 
Both system up to date.

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#167193

On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 02:18 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:28:14 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> 
> > 
> Well, do you really think I would make a post without checking such
> an 
> obvious thing first?
> 
> The default font sizes (serif, 16) are there. Nevertheless, all new
> pages 
> open with something looking like 8 or 10, no bigger. This is the
> problem.

Set your font sizes to something else other than is displayed in the
dialog. Save the change, exit firefox, relaunch and reset the font size
back to what ever you need. Quit and relaunch. Any better?

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#167195

Michael writes:
> Set your font sizes to something else other than is displayed in the
> dialog. Save the change, exit firefox, relaunch and reset the font
> size back to what ever you need. Quit and relaunch. Any better?

Worth a try, though you normally don't need to restart Firefox for font
size changes.

What version of Firefox is this?
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA

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#167205

Lisi writes:
> Many sites don't take a blind bit of notice of my settings.

That's what the "minimum" setting in Preferences->Content->Advanced is
for.  Badly-designed pages (i.e., the usual kind) may garble themselves
if you set the minimum font size much above what the 28 year old
designer thought looked good on her 48" 16 megapixel screen, though.

-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA

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#167212

Lisi writes:
> No, they just ignore anything I have asked for.

Did you uncheck "Allow pages..." ?

Also, I don't think any of that stuff has any effect if the pages are JS.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA

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#167275

On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 07:22:00 -0500, John Hasler wrote:

> Michael writes:
>> Set your font sizes to something else other than is displayed in the
>> dialog. Save the change, exit firefox, relaunch and reset the font size
>> back to what ever you need. Quit and relaunch. Any better?
> 
> Worth a try, though you normally don't need to restart Firefox for font
> size changes.
> 
> What version of Firefox is this?

Firefox v. 46 on both desktop (no problems) and laptop, where problems 
shows up.

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#167273

On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 07:05:39 +0100, Michael wrote:

> On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 02:18 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:28:14 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Well, do you really think I would make a post without checking such an
>> obvious thing first?
>> 
>> The default font sizes (serif, 16) are there. Nevertheless, all new
>> pages open with something looking like 8 or 10, no bigger. This is the
>> problem.
> 
> Set your font sizes to something else other than is displayed in the
> dialog. Save the change, exit firefox, relaunch and reset the font size
> back to what ever you need. Quit and relaunch. Any better?

No. The problem is still there. 

Thanks.

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#167190

Juan R. de Silva composed on 2016-04-28 23:43 (UTC):

> All at a sudden Firefox started opening all websites with tiny fonts. I
> have to hit Ctl++ several times on each new page to be able to reed it.

> The only thing changed before the problem showed up - Google Chrome was
> updated to the latest version via apt-get. No other changes to the system
> were made.

> I've no idea what's happened and how to get rid of the problem. Cleaned
> cache, history, cookies - all in wain. It's dead boring to keep hitting
> Ctl++ on each page.

> Anybody? Suggestions?

This is apparently what all web designers intend for users to do. They can't 
be bothered to build their sites to respect and incorporate users' browser 
settings. Very few sites I open for the first time don't require me to zoom 4 
or more levels to make the page usable, but this happens in all browsers, not 
just Firefox.

Are you sure you weren't in the View -> Use Style menu accidentally and made 
a change, or made a switch in advanced font settings to allow pages to choose 
their own fonts?
-- 
"The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant
words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)

  Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!

Felix Miata  ***  http://fm.no-ip.com/

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#167192

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On 29/04/2016 9:43 AM, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> All at a sudden Firefox started opening all websites with tiny fonts. I 
> have to hit Ctl++ several times on each new page to be able to reed it.
> 
> The only thing changed before the problem showed up - Google Chrome was 
> updated to the latest version via apt-get. No other changes to the system 
> were made.
> 
> I've no idea what's happened and how to get rid of the problem. Cleaned 
> cache, history, cookies - all in wain. It's dead boring to keep hitting 
> Ctl++ on each page.
> 
> Anybody? Suggestions?

Is it perhaps a stuck key, giving the "request" to reduce size?

You should be able to restore the default size to see if is right by
using <ctrl>-0  -- that is the control key with the digit 0.

Cheers
AndrewM

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#167274

After trying all suggestions I am giving up.

And here a new finding. If I ever load a new page at least once and 
correct the fonts by hitting Ctl-++, then, even if I delete all history, 
including cache, cookies, etc., and go to that website/page again it 
loads with the desired fonts. So, as it goes now the problem seems to 
cure itself. A bit boring way but it goes better.

What bothers me is, as I said, it happened all at a sudden. I am 
absolutely positive I was not mixing with any Firefox settings before I 
started experiencing it. And as I said I use the same Firefox on my 
desktop also, were I have no problem what's ever.

I guess I hit some weird Firefox or one of his addons bug and I don't 
even have a clue how to reproduce it.

Thanks guys.

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#167277

On 2016-05-01, Juan R. de Silva <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I guess I hit some weird Firefox or one of his addons bug and I don't 
> even have a clue how to reproduce it.
>

I suppose you've tried the obvious (cough) like starting Firefox in safe mode,
refreshing the sucker, renaming prefs.js, using a virgin profile and the like
(or have you already told us that upthread somewhere).

> Thanks guys.

And gals.

>


-- 
Hypertext--or should I say the ideology of hypertext?--is ultrademocratic and
so entirely in harmony with the demagogic appeals to cultural democracy that
accompany (and distract one’s attention from) the ever-tightening grip of 
plutocratic capitalism. - Susan Sontag

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#167284 — Re: Fwd: ramsi.azaiez_Pedophile_alert_in_your_area_

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#167285 — Re: Fwd: kencunninghan_Pedophile_alert_in_your_area_

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What do you want me to do with this
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> Keep Our Kids Safe. Search Your Neighborhood <http://go.tua.one/tQkUb> *
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#167293 — Re: Fwd: kencunninghan_Pedophile_alert_in_your_area_

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Hey
On May 1, 2016 8:25 AM, "Ken Cunningham" <kencunninghan@gmail.com> wrote:

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>> You All The Offenders That Live Nearby. You Can Do A Quick Search
>> <http://go.tua.one/tQkUb>. It Only Takes A Few Seconds Not Only Can You See
>> Who They Are And Where They Live, You Also Get Email Alerts When A New Sex
>> Offender Moves Close To Your Home. It Also Has A Brunch Of Tools To Help
>> Keep Our Kids Safe. Search Your Neighborhood <http://go.tua.one/tQkUb> *
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#167294 — Re: Fwd: kencunninghan_Pedophile_alert_in_your_area_

On Sunday 01 May 2016 08:25:12 Ken Cunningham wrote:

> What do you want me to do with this
Feed it to sa-learn --spam, because thats what it is.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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#167296 — Re: Fwd: kencunninghan

On Sunday 01 May 2016 15:41:53 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 01 May 2016 08:25:12 Ken Cunningham wrote:
> > What do you want me to do with this
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And meanwhile the two replies have nicely flummoxed the poor Debian spam 
filters.

Gmail's spam filters have removed five of these (four plus Ken's reply) - but 
not Lisa's one.  That just disappeared!!  (I have seen her answer - but not 
the original.)

Lisi

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