Re: Firefox settings

Thanks Jim,

Ill try it and report back!

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On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 2:29 PM, Jim Allan <jimallan@tsbvi.edu> wrote:

>  This is great.
> I changed the setting to 1.2 and everything got smaller. Hmm. After a bit
> of research...
> the -1.0 setting means to use the OS settings. I had already changed my
> system to have larger fonts. So had already change FF chrome from the
> system.
>
> As to the zoom settings...
> there are 2 things to change
> zoom.maxPercent - default is 300 change to 400
> toolkit.zoomManager.zoomValues  - default is a comma separated list from
> 0.3 - 3. you have to add ,4 after the 3 to allow zoom to 400%. I added
> ,3.5,4 to the list to have another stop in zoom factors.
> This setting controls the control + and control - values for changing
> zoom. for my version 58, mouse zoom defaults to 10% increments regardless
> of this setting after I added the new values.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 4:23 AM, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Slight tangent, but I was looking for a way of increasing the zoom in
>> Firefox by default, and came across a very powerful setting.
>>
>> If you would like to increase the default zoom on all websites AND the
>> interface:
>>
>> - Open a new tab and type in about:config
>> - Click past the 'dragons' screen.
>> - Put "pix" in the search at the top.
>> - double click the layout.css.devPixelsPerPx item
>> - VERY CAREFULLY change that from -1.0 to something like 1.3 (for +30%)
>>
>> That should instantly increase the size of everything, including the
>> browser chrome. I say 'carefully' because if you put in something like
>> 0.05, you will completely break your profile and have to re-install!
>>
>> Also, you can search for 'zoom' and change the max zoom level to 400%,
>> then you can more easily test the reflow SC.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -Alastair
>>
>>
>
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