Zoom text of web pages

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To change the text size of web pages, do any of the following

  • Firefox 2 and below: View -> Text Size -> Increase / Normal / Decrease
  • Firefox 3: View > Zoom -> Zoom In / Zoom Out / Reset / Zoom Text Only
  • Ctrl++ (hold the control key and hit the plus key) makes the text larger.
  • Ctrl+- (hold the control key and hit the minus key) makes the text smaller.
  • Ctrl+0 (hold the control key and hit zero) makes the text normal size.
  • Ctrl+scroll mouse wheel

These changes will only change text sizes temporarily. "Tools -> Options -> Content -> Fonts & Colors gives you options that will stick.

Firefox 3

Firefox 3 also has a preference to (de)select site specific zoom and set specific zoom values. You can add more zoom values yourself.

If Firefox 3.5/6 is in "Private Browsing" mode then text and page zoom isn't saved to the file content-prefs.sqlite. Using "Clear Recent History" to clear the "Site Preferences" will also remove saved zoom settings.

Related preferences:

Extensions

  • ColorZilla , statusbar button has a right-click Page Zoomer feature (incidental to color picking feature).
  • Image Zoom, using mouse affects only a single image at a time, adds zoom and rotation functionality for images. (similar to and is compatible with MouseZoom)
  • MouseZoom, using mouse affects entire page, Hold the right mouse button and turn the mouse wheel to zoom in/out. Hold the right mouse button and click left to reset to normal font size. Displays percent zoom level on screen, can also display on status bar. Both mouse buttons to reset zoom. (is compatible with Image Zoom)
  • NoSquint, adjust the text-only and full-page (both text and images) zoom levels as well as color settings both globally (for all sites) and per site. Toolbar buttons, percent displays on status bar.
  • Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by presenting the essential text of the article rendered in a larger font, removing most of the clutter of side panels, images, videos. Invoked from status bar, and back to normal with a control on left side of window. Also available as a bookmarklet which toggles on/off.
  • Toggle Word Wrap, wraps PRE lines which may be exacerbated by zoom levels, also available as a style (Wrap PRE text -- http and https only).
  • Zoom Page, Zooms 'Full page' or 'Text only' using two buttons in status bar next to zoom percent display, reset with click on zoom percent displayed.

Find more zoom extensions

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