SoulSe Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 Open Firefox and browse to a page, wait for it to load and then hold down ctrl while using your mouse-wheel to zoom in and out. Nice! Am I just late (as usual) or has this feature always been there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted December 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 Actually it just messes with the font size. But it looked cool. That's why you shouldn't eat too much mexican food and then come home and fark with Firefox... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crashdamage Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 Too bad Firefox only messes with the fonts, though that's cool in itself. But I wish it had Opera's really cool zoom feature using the + and - keys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 By going to Tools -> Options -> General -> Fonts&Colors, you can set a minimum font size for webpages, e.g. 14px, 12px or 10 px, ... this way ALL text that is smaller than this, will be scaled up to the minimum font size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 By going to edit > preferences ?advanced > mouse wheel, You can set the funcion of the mousewheel by itself, and also what it does with the shift, alt and ctrl keys. each can be different and there are four options, including regular scroll and text zooming. Personaly, I find the text zooming far more useful than setting a larger default font size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 Oh, and regular mozilla can do it too, you don't need firefox for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bucky Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 (edited) I knew that Mozilla could zoom fonts with the mouse wheel but thanks Crashdamage for the + and - tip. I've just found out that Mozilla can text zoom using ctrl + / ctrl -, it gives better control than the Mouse: I wouldn't be surprised if Firefox does the same. Cheers, Bucky Edited December 2, 2004 by Bucky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 I knew that Mozilla could zoom fonts with the mouse wheel but thanks Crashdamage for the + and - tip. I've just found out that Mozilla can text zoom using ctrl + / ctrl -, it gives better control than the Mouse: I wouldn't be surprised if Firefox does the same. Cheers, Bucky <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crashdamage Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 What's cool about Opera that I miss with Firefox is Opera zooms *everything*, text, graphics, photos - whatever, and with a single key (+ or -) no 'ctrl' needed. On the other hand, Opera won't zoom just the text, at least not that I know of. Overall, I'd rather set the font like I want in preferences and have 'total' zoom like Opera. I've used both the Linux and Windoze versions of Opera for years. Even so, now I've pretty much committed to using Firefox instead, mainly because it works on some websites I frequent that Opera struggled with. I guess more website coders are testing against Firefox because of all the publicity and popularity lately. Seems like Firefox might be a shade quicker than Opera and maybe even a bit more stable too. Both Firefox and Opera are pretty good. But actually, I still do most of my web grazing with Links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 Yup the zoom in Opera sure is cool! I just discovered it .. thanks crashdamage... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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