I have been using Firefox after a haitus on omniweb.... but anyway,
We all know that to increase the size of a window (zoom) you can FN + crtl and then use the trackpad/mouse ---> and the window gets really big. A nice trick.
But I just stumbled onto this one (and so far it only works on firefox (not safari, not mail).
ctrl + option and then trackpad/mouse ---> increases the size of the fonts in the window, graphics stay the same. Even as I type this (and this; and this; and this) the font is larger and so much easier to see/read/type.
neat trick, and if you already knew about it… oh well. If you didn’t know about it (and use firefox) you’re welcome.
where else does it work?
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Which reminds me of a joke:
What did the fly say when he was flying by a globe?
“whoa.... I’m waaaay too high!”
Command plus and minus does the same in Safari. Not sure in Mail not tried it, but I suspect it’s the same. Whether or not the images scale as well depends on how the page is coded.
Command plus and minus does the same in Safari. Not sure in Mail not tried it, but I suspect it’s the same. Whether or not the images scale as well depends on how the page is coded.
Most images won’t scale, but I love Apple’s new Mighty Mouse “control-scroll” to zoom in on the Mac’s screen (started with an OS X update or two ago).
I click “control” and hold, and then “scroll” the Mighty Mouse scroll wheel and the whole screen zooms in or out, antialiased, too. Images, text, everything remains rather sharp and pleasant to view. It’s decent on graphics as well. I’ve used it on site’s with small text and on graphics where I wanted to see something up close.
I have been using Firefox after a haitus on omniweb.... but anyway,
ctrl + option and then trackpad/mouse ---> increases the size of the fonts in the window, graphics stay the same. Even as I type this (and this; and this; and this) the font is larger and so much easier to see/read/type.
neat trick, and if you already knew about it… oh well. If you didn’t know about it (and use firefox) you’re welcome.
where else does it work?
First, thanks for sharing this, Redsoxnation. I’d like to share that it also works with Camino .
Thanks for sharing, this was not known to me, as I have just started to use Firefox over IE and already I am amazed to see the host of features that it has to offer. It has been a great transformation switching on from IE to this one, and for sure these are handy techniques that can be used for the benefit of our work.
I’m willing to bet that almost half the internet users in Europe, at least in France and Italy, use Firefox. It was the default browser on every PC we used in internet cafes during our vacation.
A quickie follow up to this-- I just started school again (teacher) and noticed that our school’s system administrator is running Firefox on all the PCs now.
Doesn’t Firefox’s ability to load up all kinds of extensions present either 1) a security risk, or 2) an administration nightmare?
We just put Safari on our PC at home and it’s been working great. It sure renders pages more attractively than Internet Explorer.
I downloaded Firefox (on my Mac) just to see what it was like. (OK, I like the whole idea of Open Software Licensing and all that...) After trying it out, I find myself using Safari about 99.5% of the time. Firefox takes forever to load, it’s slow, it’s clunky, and the pages won’t scroll except in enormous jerks...BUT I keep it for one reason and one reason alone. I found an extension called DownThemAll that takes the place of the Download Manager and somehow ignores the kill signals that Google Books sends out, aborting downloads early. Also, Internet Archive will only let you download books in the DjVu format via the incredibly lame FTP method, but DownThemAll somehow circumvents that as well, and handles them like any other download. If it wasn’t for this one extension, I would have trashed Firefox long ago. Anybody at Apple who’s working on Safari 3 listening?
I would think that Firefoxs extensions certainly could present an admin nightmare and potential security risk, however in the pc environment it is much better than IE. Not a lot of pc people probably even know about safari on PC. Hopefully that will change.
I’m willing to bet that almost half the internet users in Europe, at least in France and Italy, use Firefox. It was the default browser on every PC we used in internet cafes during our vacation.
I agree with Carol, I live in switzerland (I know we STILL aren’ into the Europan Union, but anyway) Firefox seems to become the default browser in a lot of PC (Thanks god I am using a mac and Safari), but I download firefox just to have a look.
I wish you a nice evening to all american because Here it is about to be midnight.
Most images won’t scale, but I love Apple’s new Mighty Mouse “control-scroll” to zoom in on the Mac’s screen (started with an OS X update or two ago).
I click “control” and hold, and then “scroll” the Mighty Mouse scroll wheel and the whole screen zooms in or out, antialiased, too. Images, text, everything remains rather sharp and pleasant to view. It’s decent on graphics as well. I’ve used it on site’s with small text and on graphics where I wanted to see something up close.
It’s a bit chunky though, resembling fat-bits ever-so-slightly (I’m not that old, I was just terribly advanced). The rare pages that do zoom images (if you define image size via ems) will scale via the OS, and smoothly, on Mac and Windows. For other pages, however, I suspect Firefox’s option will be prettier than the visual aid zoom.
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