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what happened to zoom in and zoom out selection, so you could make the screen zoom in and out?

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Danmanmanz2001
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I added zoom in and zoom out to my yahoo toolbar and from one of the sites that let you pick buttons to add to your toolbar, and now it has disappeared. And I can not find zoom anywhere. Have you heard of this happening before? If so do you have a resolution for this? Thanks in advance. Dan

I added zoom in and zoom out to my yahoo toolbar and from one of the sites that let you pick buttons to add to your toolbar, and now it has disappeared. And I can not find zoom anywhere. Have you heard of this happening before? If so do you have a resolution for this? Thanks in advance. Dan

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Note that there are keyboard shortcuts for this, which is faster than pressing GUI buttons.

  • To make things bigger, press Ctrl and &#43 at the same time.
  • To make things smaller, press Ctrl and - at the same time.
  • To reset the size back to normal, press Ctrl and 0 at the same time.
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cor-el
cor-el
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You seem to be using a Firefox 23.0a1 Nightly build.

Please update to the current Firefox 24 release.

  • Help > About Firefox

The Firefox version that you currently run is no longer supported with security updates.

  • It is important to update Firefox and add-ons to the latest version to get all security fixes.

Make sure that toolbars like the "Navigation Toolbar" and the "Bookmarks Toolbar" are visible.

  • Firefox menu button > Options
  • View > Toolbars (press F10 to display the menu bar)
  • Right-click empty toolbar area

Use Toolbar Layout (Customize) to open the Customize window and set which toolbar items to display.

  • if missing items are in the toolbar palette then drag them back from the Customize window on the toolbar
  • if you do not see an item on a toolbar and in the toolbar palette then click the "Restore Default Set" button to restore the default toolbar setup
kobe
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Chosen Solution

Note that there are keyboard shortcuts for this, which is faster than pressing GUI buttons.

  • To make things bigger, press Ctrl and &#43 at the same time.
  • To make things smaller, press Ctrl and - at the same time.
  • To reset the size back to normal, press Ctrl and 0 at the same time.
cor-el
cor-el
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You can also use an extension to set a default font size and page zoom on web pages.

Modified by cor-el