evan_tech -- nosquint

05:45 pm, 8 May 07

nosquint

"NoSquint is a Firefox extension that allows you to adjust the default text zoom level" and retain per-site font zoom settings. This may in fact be the best Firefox extension ever, taking FlashBlock's top spot.

(In other news, I have managed to convert

mattm to my huge-font cult. Joinnn usss... there's some initial discomfort in everything not looking "normal", but you quickly adjust and it feels so much better.)

natan How huge are you talking about? :)

OmniWeb has had the per-site font zoom feature for a few years – I agree it's pretty sweet.

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- sajith Epiphany too, kind of.
  
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gaal

I know your intention wasn't to get "no, no! The best Firefox extension ever is actually $this!" but lately I've begun to rally appreciate Stylish, which lets you set user CSS and retain it per site. This sounds like precisely the overgeeked version of something that lets you just fix the damn font zoom, sure, but I also use it to reduce the contrast in some eye-pounding sites where I have to spend a lot of time on text, and it's great.

Also I can't help but mention it can even work around more subtle visual design flaws. In GMail there's something like:

Inbox (2)
Starred
...
All mail
Spam (579)
Trash

Thanks a lot for filtering spam, but I don't want my eye attracted to this useless number all the time! Some clever CSS fixes that without breaking functionality.

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nibot	agreed. You also maintain a cult of Huge Fonts? I discovered huge fonts earlier this year, or maybe late last year. My terminal font is like 16 pts and it is wonderful. I can sit back with the computer at arms' length and compute luxuriously, the huge fonts requiring no effort to read. This add-on sounds wonderful; it will engulf my ritual of Ctrl-Plus.
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trs80 [typekey.com] See, I'm tempted to install it so I can shrink the font size at http://www.redmonk.com/cote/

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Anonymous	Hot Dog! At my crusty old age of 29, I am definitely a member of the Font Club for the Seeing Impaired. Everybody at the coffee shop can read my code. That's the real reason I open source it. -stevej
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eqe	I'm very happy with `6x13`, thankyouverymuch. If someone would make a 180dpi laptop screen in the 12" 4x3 size, I would love to run with more pixels. But I haven't seen that, and I think that even if I did I would continue to want my text about the same visual size.
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natan	How huge are you talking about? :) OmniWeb has had the per-site font zoom feature for a few years – I agree it's pretty sweet.
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trs80 [typekey.com]	See, I'm tempted to install it so I can shrink the font size at http://www.redmonk.com/cote/
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sajith	Epiphany too, kind of.
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evan_tech

nosquint

agreed.

Hot Dog!