Dude, Edit->Preferences->Appearances->Fonts and set
the minimum font size to about 12 or 14. Problem
solved. You are using a recent version of
Mozilla, of course, right? Most of the previous
user's complaints can be solved too. The one thing
Moz doesn't do yet is scale images down to prevent
the need for horizontal scrolling. There's a bug
filed on that, but it hasn't been fixed yet.
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I'd rather be able to use the wheel to zoom the window as I feel like it. Sometimes I want to sit back and relax and read something; other times I'm in normal work position closer to the screen. So, I want to just disable the font size pegging. Use their size as a starting value, sure. I think Opera zooms by changing the window world coordinate system mapping, so a "8 point font" can be an inch tall, without the layout engine caring or being any the wiser. And that scales the images, too!
No, I've not tried Mozilla except once in the very early days. Maybe I'll give it a shot. I'm hooked on the Google toolbar, though... and things like MSDN and CHM files insist on using IE, so I'll have to know two systems.
—John
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I'd rather be able to use the wheel to zoom the window as I feel like it.
Having a minimum font size still allows you to zoom it
up, no problem there. The minimum is just a minimum.
What the wheel does (with or without various modifier
keys) is another preference, and text zooming is one
option. Scaling the whole page (including images)
hasn't landed yet, though; Opera is ahead of Mozilla
there (and in a couple of other areas; e.g., Opera
supports more of the page-break stuff in CSS2).
No, I've not tried Mozilla except once in the very early days.
A couple of years ago Mozilla hit critical mass; it has
picked up a lot of active developers
and now moves along very quickly. If you try it again,
you will find yourself compelled to upgrade at least
once a quarter, because a version older than that seems
klunky by comparison. I absolutely can't use versions
from the 1.0 release branch (cut in spring 2002)
anymore (much less legacy browsers), because too many
features are missing.
I'm hooked on the Google toolbar, though...
What, that old thing? The
Googlebar
has features that it is missing.
and things like MSDN and CHM files insist on using IE, so I'll have to know two systems.
The fiasco with MSN and MSDN only working with MSIE
is ancient history. I think it lasted for all of
a week and a half. (I think the W3C threatened
them with some kind of public exposure, because
they were erroneously claiming compliance with W3C
standards as their excuse for locking out
"non-compliant" browsers, some of which were a
good deal more compliant than MSIE.)
You've never seen Microsoft backpedal so fast.
Since then they've begun to take Mozilla seriously.
They even fixed the MSKB problem that caused
overlapping text in Mozilla.
I don't know what CHM files are, though.
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