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Firefox fonts too big...

How in the Sam Hill do you change the font settings in Mozilla Firefox?

I got this Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040211 Firefox/0.8
and went to Tools -> Options -> General -> Fonts and Colors and can't change a thing on that page. Anyone know how to do this?

Also, there's no scroll bar on the right of the window...

Try moving ~/.phoenix somewhere else, and restarting Firefox.

If that doesn't work, try re-installing Firefox.

Apart from that, if you downloaded the version with xft, try the version without (or vice-versa)

Dave

hrmm well there is two things i can think of ...
tools -> options -> general

and then right there it says "Fonts and Colors"
(i see you said that now)

or another thing is ...
View --> Increase Font Size
or
View --> Decrease Font Size

and usually i found with the no scroll bar problem, is a incompatible theme that only partially works .. so try changing back to default and see if thats your problem ..

Quote:

Originally posted by ilikejam
Try moving ~/.phoenix somewhere else, and restarting Firefox.

If that doesn't work, try re-installing Firefox.

Apart from that, if you downloaded the version with xft, try the version without (or vice-versa)

Dave

Dave,

Thanks for the reply.

I don't have anything phoenix in my system at all.

My version is the java version ->
firefox-0.8-i686-pc-javadesktopsystem2003.tar.gz

With all due respect, reinstalling is Windoze mentality...
trying to avoid that at all costs!

but read on, my bud had the answer!

Quote:

Originally posted by DrOzz
or another thing is ...
View --> Increase Font Size
or
View --> Decrease Font Size

You are the man, Jay! Of course that's it.
I read everything but the drop-down menus. :}

Quote:

and usually i found with the no scroll bar problem, is a incompatible theme that only partially works .. so try changing back to default and see if thats your problem ..

I'm running the Nautilus 1.6 theme by Alfred Kayser. Also have Modern (who says?)
and Firefox (default). None give a scroll bar. My mouse scrolls, but you know sometimes
you just want that little precision. Of course, now that you've fixed my font problem,
that may not be "mission critical." Also, I didn't shut the browser down because I've got
about 11 tabs opened and not bookmarked. I'll post this then mark 'em and try changing themes
again and then restart the Fox and see what happens. If that produces a scroll bar,
I'll post back and edit. If not, no edit.

Xiexie!

Edit
Well, Jay, you're right again! Spot on, mate!

When I restarted the browser with the Firefox default theme, there was the scrollbaar.
Then I changed back to Natilus 1.6, rebooted, and it ain't there. But the scrollbar was
there with that Nautilus theme in Firebird, so it must be the new browser.
Also, the text change doesn't stick. The reboot leaves the text the same old 16pt
that's defaulted in the browser, and when you open another tab, you have to change
it there, also.

I guess bleeding edge drips sometimes, eh?

Firefox still uses ~/.phoenix as its user config directory. (At least the normal i686 version does).

As for the reinstall mentality, fair enough but things can and do go wrong when tar.gz archives are unpacked, so sometimes a re-install is what's required (this is rare - it's more likely to be a corrupted download in my experience).

Dave

Quote:

Originally posted by ilikejam
Firefox still uses ~/.phoenix as its user config directory. (At least the normal i686 version does).

As for the reinstall mentality, fair enough but things can and do go wrong when tar.gz archives are unpacked, so sometimes a re-install is what's required (this is rare - it's more likely to be a corrupted download in my experience).

Dave

Sorry, I gave a bad report saying no .phoenix, from running one of these

Code:

mingdao@paul:Tue Mar 02 19:16:57~$ whereis phoenix

phoenix:

mingdao@paul:Tue Mar 02 19:17:03~$

Well I probably messed that up anyway.

Code:

mingdao@paul:Tue Mar 02 19:09:57~$ cd .phoenix

mingdao@paul:Tue Mar 02 19:10:25~/.phoenix$ ls -aFlc

total 15

drwxr-xr-x    3 mingdao  users        128 Jan 15 12:50 ./

drwx--x--x  62 mingdao  users        5536 Mar  2 10:29 ../

-rw-r--r--    1 mingdao  users        1045 Mar  2 19:08 appreg

drwxr-xr-x    3 mingdao  users          80 Jan 15 12:50 default/

-rw-------    1 mingdao  users        546 Mar  1 23:44 pluginreg.dat

mingdao@paul:Tue Mar 02 19:10:29~/.phoenix$ cd default/

mingdao@paul:Tue Mar 02 19:10:41~/.phoenix/default$ ls -aFlc

total 2

drwxr-xr-x    3 mingdao  users          80 Jan 15 12:50 ./

drwxr-xr-x    3 mingdao  users        128 Jan 15 12:50 ../

drwxr-xr-x    5 mingdao  users        648 Mar  2 19:08 ulgdsscd.slt/

mingdao@paul:Tue Mar 02 19:10:43~/.phoenix/default$ cd ulgdsscd.slt/

mingdao@paul:Tue Mar 02 19:13:50~/.phoenix/default/ulgdsscd.slt$ ls -aFlc

total 1401

drwxr-xr-x    5 mingdao  users        648 Mar  2 19:08 ./

drwxr-xr-x    3 mingdao  users          80 Jan 15 12:50 ../

drwxr-xr-x    2 mingdao  users        2064 Mar  2 16:55 Cache/

drwxr-xr-x    2 mingdao  users          48 Mar  1 22:42 Cache.Trash/

-rw-r--r--    1 mingdao  users    1004808 Mar  2 08:06 XUL.mfasl

-rw-------    1 mingdao  users      17666 Mar  2 19:08 bookmarks.html

-rw-------    1 mingdao  users      65536 Mar  2 19:08 cert8.db

drwxr-xr-x    3 mingdao  users        224 Feb 14 20:36 chrome/

-rw-r--r--    1 mingdao  users        2067 Mar  2 19:06 cookies.txt

-rw-r--r--    1 mingdao  users        2304 Mar  1 23:10 cookperm.txt

-rw-r--r--    1 mingdao  users      54966 Mar  2 08:07 downloads.rdf

-rw-r--r--    1 mingdao  users      12143 Mar  2 19:03 formhistory.dat

-rw-r--r--    1 mingdao  users      208746 Mar  2 19:08 history.dat

-rw-------    1 mingdao  users      16384 Mar  2 19:08 key3.db

-rw-r--r--    1 mingdao  users      11355 Mar  2 19:08 localstore.rdf

-rw-r--r--    1 mingdao  users        2708 Mar  2 08:02 mimeTypes.rdf

-rw-r--r--    1 mingdao  users        1607 Jan 15 12:50 panels.rdf

-rw-r--r--    1 mingdao  users        7205 Mar  2 19:08 prefs.bak

-rw-r--r--    1 mingdao  users        7206 Mar  2 19:08 prefs.js

-rw-r--r--    1 mingdao  users        720 Jan 15 12:50 search.rdf

-rw-------    1 mingdao  users      16384 Mar  1 23:49 secmod.db

-rw-r--r--    1 mingdao  users        735 Feb  8 11:58 signons.txt

Code:

mingdao@paul:Tue Mar 02 19:28:46~/source/firefox$ whereis mozilla-config

mozilla-config: /usr/bin/mozilla-config

That identical mozilla-config file is also in the /firefox directory.

When I installed Firefox, all's I did was untar it in the same directory
that holds MozillaFirebird.

Did you remove all the old Firebird stuff from the MozillaFirebird directory first?

Quote:

Originally posted by ilikejam
Did you remove all the old Firebird stuff from the MozillaFirebird directory first?

Negative on that. So, I've totally messed it up, eh? Would you mind
putting me straight from here? Should I hose the rascal out and start
over with no browser? That may even get a scrollbar. :}

Thank you Dave.

Yup. I'd rip out the whole Firebird folder and start from a fresh install of Firefox.

Dave