[gentoo-user] [ot fonts in firefox]

[gentoo-user] [ot fonts in firefox]

[Harry Putnam]

Can anyone here coach me a little about getting a decent look in
firefox.

I've monkeyed around with the font settings endlessly but it seems I
can only get a look where like in a google search..  The hits are
displayed in a decent and reasonable size. But the font size in the
search box where you enter your terms is much bigger.... It seams nothing I
do in the supplied font adjustment settings has any effect on that
font.

You can see the window grab here:
  www.jtan.com/~reader/vu/disp.cgi

It doesn't look all that bad but notice how big the font in the search
box is compared to the index of hits.  The font inside search box is
not bold but is a fair bit larger font size than even the headlines in
the index of hits.

How do you control the font inside that search box?  And how do you
get a reliable size in the rest of it.. I tried checked and unchecked
on the item that says [] let the pages show their own fonts.
Doesn't seem to matter either way

I've tried numerous setting on the various font sizes available in the 
Edit/preferences font and advanced dialogs.  But I haven't found a
combination the just works for most stuff.

[gentoo-user] Re: [ot fonts in firefox]

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 09/28/2009 10:08 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Can anyone here coach me a little about getting a decent look in
> firefox.
>
> I've monkeyed around with the font settings endlessly but it seems I
> can only get a look where like in a google search..  The hits are
> displayed in a decent and reasonable size. But the font size in the
> search box where you enter your terms is much bigger.... It seams nothing I
> do in the supplied font adjustment settings has any effect on that
> font.
>
> You can see the window grab here:
>    www.jtan.com/~reader/vu/disp.cgi
>
>  It doesn't look all that bad but notice how big the font in the search
> box is compared to the index of hits.  The font inside search box is
> not bold but is a fair bit larger font size than even the headlines in
> the index of hits.

Google has recently changed this.  It looks that way now and there's no 
way to change this.  The buttons also got a lot bigger.


> How do you control the font inside that search box?  And how do you
> get a reliable size in the rest of it.. I tried checked and unchecked
> on the item that says [] let the pages show their own fonts.
> Doesn't seem to matter either way
>
> I've tried numerous setting on the various font sizes available in the
> Edit/preferences font and advanced dialogs.  But I haven't found a
> combination the just works for most stuff.

One thing you can do is painfully adjust all font sizes in the settings 
of Firefox for all languages and all styles.  Sucks; it's a long list, 
but helps here (I use "16".)

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot fonts in firefox]

[Dale]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> Can anyone here coach me a little about getting a decent look in
> firefox.
>
> I've monkeyed around with the font settings endlessly but it seems I
> can only get a look where like in a google search..  The hits are
> displayed in a decent and reasonable size. But the font size in the
> search box where you enter your terms is much bigger.... It seams nothing I
> do in the supplied font adjustment settings has any effect on that
> font.
>
> You can see the window grab here:
>   www.jtan.com/~reader/vu/disp.cgi
>
> It doesn't look all that bad but notice how big the font in the search
> box is compared to the index of hits.  The font inside search box is
> not bold but is a fair bit larger font size than even the headlines in
> the index of hits.
>
> How do you control the font inside that search box?  And how do you
> get a reliable size in the rest of it.. I tried checked and unchecked
> on the item that says [] let the pages show their own fonts.
> Doesn't seem to matter either way
>
> I've tried numerous setting on the various font sizes available in the 
> Edit/preferences font and advanced dialogs.  But I haven't found a
> combination the just works for most stuff.
>
>
>
>   

I have the same thing in Seamonkey.  The problem is that you can adjust
the font size but not the size of the box itself.  Google in this case
controls that.  I don't know of a way to workaround this myself.

I have seen this same thing on different sites so it is not going to be
just google either.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot fonts in firefox]

[Renat Golubchyk]

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On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:08:00 -0500
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> I've monkeyed around with the font settings endlessly but it seems I
> can only get a look where like in a google search..  The hits are
> displayed in a decent and reasonable size. But the font size in the
> search box where you enter your terms is much bigger.... It seams
> nothing I do in the supplied font adjustment settings has any effect
> on that font.

You can modify appearance of any site and your mozilla client in
userContent.css and userChrome.css in your mozilla profile's chrome
directory. There are example stylesheets there. Restart Mozilla for
changes to take effect.


Cheers,
Renat

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