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  • Optimal web browsing with a high resolution (1920x1200) display? I have two computers with high resolution displays (1920x1200). They're great for graphics, but they suck for web browsing. The problem is that in the default settings (using IE), the text is way too small. Zooming in works fine for pages of fixed width (e.g. news sites like NYTimes.com), but it doesn't work well for most blogs and forums, because the lines of text end up being wider than the display, and you then have to scroll left and right. I've also tried increasing the text size, which works OK for some sites, but on others the lines of text run together if the text is too big. Surely there must be a better way to deal with this, aside from individually adjusting the zoom and text size every time I got to a new web page?

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    There's an extension for Firefox called No Squint that remembers zoom settings for web pages between sessions, so every time you go to the NYT, for instance, it adjusts to your customized settings for that site automatically. Works wonders.

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"There's an extension for Firefox called No Squint" That works well, except that I don't like how Firefox tries to increase the text size while cramming a fixed-width website into the same width. By contrast, IE will take a website like NYTimes.com and make it wider as you zoom in. Is there a way to make FreFox do that?

mikeand1

Proper zoom functionality isn't in the current version of Firefox, and there's really no good way to get it. It is, however, a planned feature for Firefox 3. You'll either have to switch to Opera/IE7 or wait for the http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html.

theiconoclast31

*You'll either have to switch to Opera/IE7 or get the http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html.

theiconoclast31

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html zooms in like IE - making everything bigger, including the width. I believe this is your desired behavior. Try Firefox 3 - I recommend the http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/test because then you don't have to stop using Firefox 2, for instance if you find a bug that hinders your browsing ability. Unfortunately, No Squint isn't compatible with Firefox 3 - but you could try http://www.mactips.org/archives/2008/01/12/make-old-extensions-work-in-firefox-3-beta/ and see if it works. If No Squint does work in FF3, then it should be perfect for your needs. If not, then keep looking, sorry. -Ricket

Ricket

"If No Squint does work in FF3, then it should be perfect for your needs." Yes, that seems to work. Now we're getting somewhere. My only complaint is that Ctrl-Scroll doesn't work for zooming now, but that's a minor complaint

mikeand1

Opera. You can customize it fairly easily in Opera, fit to width, zoom, and a combination of disable positioning (tables / CSS) usually gets it an easily readable format for me.

bigmusic

"You can customize it fairly easily in Opera," Does it remember settings for specific websites?

mikeand1

Something else you might care to play with is right-clicking on the desktop, selecting Properties, clicking the Settings tab, clicking Advanced, and changing the DPI setting from the default 96 to something larger, and rebooting. This will make text bigger in almost all Windows applications, and with often but not always scale graphics up as well. If your favorite apps don't end up looking horribly broken when you do this, it might suit you.

flabdablet

I've got a similar problem with using a Mac mini connected to a 37" HDTV - and none of the solutions I've tried have been successful. Can't see it getting any better in the long run, particularly whilst web pages force their own styles upon the viewer.

Chunder

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