Why isn't there a zoom % I can set for each site as I can with IE?
Firefox 14.0.1
With IE there is a zoom % at the bottom right of the page. It is self evident how to adjust the type size.
If I set it to, e.g., 125% , the type will be 25% larger on every webpage I browse to.
With Firefox this simple and useful feature does not exist. Why?
I know (after spending time on your "Help" pages) that I can hit "+" sign and Ctrl. But I don't want to do that for every page.
I found an addon. But then, even though it's an app that Firefox lists, there is a warning to only use apps from people you trust.
Firefox - No one I trust designs apps. What is the point of listing it with Firefox apps if I have to personally trust the designer. I don't personally know any designers, how could I trust them?
I also don't understand from the description and the reader comments if it will do what I want, which is to duplicate what the IE % zoom does.
Things like this are why I always go back to IE when I try to use Firefox more. You are trying to improve upon IE. Why take away worthwhile tools?
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You can use an extension to set a default font size and page zoom on web pages.
- Default FullZoom Level: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/default-fullzoom-level/
- NoSquint: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/nosquint/
More settings are possible:
"I found an addon. But then, even though it's an app that Firefox lists, there is a warning to only use apps from people you trust. "
I have never installed an extension that didn't display that message - for over 6 years since that "signing thing" was instituted. AFAIK, a signing registry was never instituted by Mozilla to make use of that feature, hence that message.
Every add-on is carefully vetted by Mozilla - repeatedly - during the upload process and again before it would leave the "trial" phase (used to be the "sandbox", I forget what it is currently called). If something would slip through the process (something that Mozilla wasn't checking for), as soon as that breach would be reported Mozilla has the power to disable such add-on's via the Blocklist the next time Firefox was launched for every user who may have installed the add-on. And they have had to do that only twice now.
I did find the extension "Default Full Zoom Level" only it is not giving me a default zoom level.
With IE if I set the zoom (conveniently located on the lower right) to 150%, then every web page is viewed at 150%.
With the "Default-Full Zoom-Level", I set it to 150% (apparently i have to go to Tools/Addons/Extensions/Options which is horrendously inconvenient). So the page it is on is now 150% - the Extensions page.
I would like every webpage I view to be at this default view 150%. Is there a way to get this app to do this?
The wording of the explanation is incomprehensible - "The zoom mode is restored every domain name or tab as well as the zoom level".
Perhaps English is not this person's native language? I don't understand the above sentence.
Firefox should have the same simple device which IE has - a zoom available at the lower right of the webpage which setting is the default for all webpages.
My having to spend time downloading several addons, reading the Help pages, posting on this forum - this is simply incompetent on Firefox's part.
Building a better browser than IE should not mean doing away with basic and to me essential tools such as this, and making things infiinitely more difficult and time consuming to find out how to perform a task that takes a few seconds and is easy to figure out with IE!!!!
Modified by Blixx
White Alice0775 who has created the Default FullZoom Level extension is Japanese of origin.
There should be a button on the Navigation Toolbar to set the zoom level via a drop down menu.
There are a lot more buttons available via the Customize window.
- Firefox > Options > Toolbar Layout
- View > Toolbars > Customize