Firefox 3 - Text size vs. Full page zoom
Anyone who prefers resizing text in Firefox to zooming the entire page in Opera.
In the current Firefox 3 trunk assemblies (including the first official beta that was released the other day), the text size change (Text size) is replaced with the zoom of the entire page (Full page zoom). The trouble is that the developers mistakenly accepted the technical capability (the presence of which, as such , undoubtedly increases the competitiveness of Firefox) for the unconditional improvement and did not provide any settings that could be used to switch to the old method of scaling , which is one of the fundamental differences between Firefox and any other browsers for many of its users, including the author of these lines.
Needless to say, increasing the font size in order to increase the readability of the text has nothing to do with scaling all the elements of the page, without exception, including images that are distorted (especially since the simplest interpolation is “adjacent”), which do not need to be scaled altogether. Unlike vector-based fonts, they are best displayed on a 1: 1 scale.
I think it is clear that this setting should be available at the graphical interface level (not in about: config) and in the standard Firefox package (without any extensions). Given the simplicity of the issue, the degree of attention paid to it by developers now depends mainly on the voices of its users. You can do your bit by voting to add such an option on the corresponding bug page on bugzilla.mozilla.org (there are already two dozen votes). Voting is available after registration , which requires only a workable e-mail address. Thank you for attention.
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Upd .: The option “ Zoom Text Only ” was added in the nightly build of February 13 (Gecko / 2008021304):
Thank you all for your support.
In the current Firefox 3 trunk assemblies (including the first official beta that was released the other day), the text size change (Text size) is replaced with the zoom of the entire page (Full page zoom). The trouble is that the developers mistakenly accepted the technical capability (the presence of which, as such , undoubtedly increases the competitiveness of Firefox) for the unconditional improvement and did not provide any settings that could be used to switch to the old method of scaling , which is one of the fundamental differences between Firefox and any other browsers for many of its users, including the author of these lines.
Needless to say, increasing the font size in order to increase the readability of the text has nothing to do with scaling all the elements of the page, without exception, including images that are distorted (especially since the simplest interpolation is “adjacent”), which do not need to be scaled altogether. Unlike vector-based fonts, they are best displayed on a 1: 1 scale.
I think it is clear that this setting should be available at the graphical interface level (not in about: config) and in the standard Firefox package (without any extensions). Given the simplicity of the issue, the degree of attention paid to it by developers now depends mainly on the voices of its users. You can do your bit by voting to add such an option on the corresponding bug page on bugzilla.mozilla.org (there are already two dozen votes). Voting is available after registration , which requires only a workable e-mail address. Thank you for attention.
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Upd .: The option “ Zoom Text Only ” was added in the nightly build of February 13 (Gecko / 2008021304):
Thank you all for your support.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/16648/
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