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johnnyrocker
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Posted May 23, 2012 at 10:19PM

after an nvidia upgrade to my system i was left with a pic much larger etc,i tried all i knew but it made no odds so i thought i would do a system restore. this went through the motions and eventually said restore not possible and to try another date, funny thing is that pic size etc was all resolved with the exception of font sizes which from all the adjustments i have tried do nothing about web pages althoughby altering the zoom size i can get acceptable results i am left with very large print around the window IE alterations do little for the word content any ideas please XP pro SP3

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johnnyrocker

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Posted May 24, 2012 at 6:44PM

seems to work on IE8 but not in firefox

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johnnyrocker

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Posted May 24, 2012 at 7:45PM

the problem seems to be on most sites, sorry to be a bit dim

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rdave13

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Posted May 24, 2012 at 7:48PM

It's a setting in fire fox possibly. Try the ctrl plus scroll wheel to get pages to 100%. In options under content the default font size 16. Check that. Try going to 105 or 110% page size. See if better.

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johnnyrocker

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Posted May 24, 2012 at 9:13PM

i can scroll the page to an acceptablesize but it does not say anywhere what the page size is and i cant find content?

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rdave13

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Posted May 24, 2012 at 9:31PM

Depends what you have showing in Fire Fox. I have the orange tab at top left and not the menu bar showing. I click on that, then options, once you get to options select the content tab. That will give you the options to change font size but default is 16 and my zoom level is 105%.

Now I've right clicked just beneath the addy bar and selected the Menu Bar. Under TOOLS select the options in the dropdown menu. Select the Content tab. Check your font size.

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lotvic

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Posted May 24, 2012 at 10:06PM

rdave13, As per johnnyrocker said, where do you find "zoom level is 105%"? I don't seem to have that either.

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rdave13

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Posted May 24, 2012 at 10:15PM

Hmm, I only go by what I see with my default IE9, a much superior browser I must state..

Right-click on an empty section of the Tab Strip, select Customize... and the Customize Toolbar window will open. In the Customize Toolbar window, click and drag the "Zoom Controls" toolbar item to the desired place on one of your toolbars.

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lotvic

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Posted May 24, 2012 at 10:20PM

rdave13, Oh I thought you were talking about the settings in Firefox...

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rdave13

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Posted May 24, 2012 at 10:24PM

I am lotvic then compare to IE side by side.

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Posted May 24, 2012 at 10:40PM

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