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the print on my screen is way too big. how do i make things fit the screen

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lectric4801
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my monitor/screen type is way too big. i'm unable to get all the print on my screen. how do i change the borders and the letter size to a normal size. i need all the help i can get. thank-you

my monitor/screen type is way too big. i'm unable to get all the print on my screen. how do i change the borders and the letter size to a normal size. i need all the help i can get. thank-you

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cor-el
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Decrease the String pref layout.css.devPixelsPerPx from 1.0 to 0.1 in 0.1 or 0.05 steps to adjust the size of fonts and other elements in Firefox.

In current Firefox versions this pref is a String value parsed to a float and allows to fine tune the dimensions of all elements (user interface and web pages) more precisely.

To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the "Enter" key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website.
If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.

You can use one of these extensions to adjust the default font size and page zoom on web pages: