I recently had two conversations with Firefox users who did not know that Firefox came with the means to zoom in and out of a website. They were using external applications to magnify parts of the screen and where surprised that they could achieve the same effect with less work.
All of the zooming options are available from the View menu in Firefox. Firefox users find options to zoom in, zoom out and restore the default level in the Zoom submenu there. There is also one additional option to change the default zoom behavior to only zoom the text of a website. The default behavior is to zoom all elements of a website. Not many users will use the View > Zoom menu though to zoom in Firefox. It simply takes to long which is why the same effect can be achieved with keyboard shortcuts:
- Zoom in: [CTRL +] or [CTRL Mousewheel up]
- Zoom out: [CTRL -] or [CTRL Mousewheel down]
- Reset Zoom: [CTRL 0]
The keyboard shortcuts come in really handy if you stumble upon badly designed websites or those that use images or other elements that are barely decipherable in default view. The only thing that one should realize is that the zoom level works on a domain basis. Multiple pages of the same domain that are opened in different tabs will all be effected by the zoom.
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I thought most people knew about this handy trick.
It’s also applicable to a host of window based applications too. Most applications that have a chat of some kind can have the text up-sized by using ctrl + scroll wheel up.
You wouldn’t believe how many people doesn’t know about ctrl+c ctrl+v!
Yeah I’m with “Satanicat” – thought everyone knew about this.
On the same topic – Does anyone know why when I open Yahoo Mail using FireFox my screen zooms in-and-out, and finally settles on the zoomed in mode. it’s easily correctible by clicking “Ctrl-0″ but the zooming is annoying.
Thanks,
Craig
I can zoom via my Cirque touchpad mouse which simulates a mouse wheel.
But d zooming work adequately on an LCD monitor? I keep my 20″ CRT (running 1660 x 1200 resolution) because I thought that LCD monitors didn’t work well if you changed text from the native size.
I’m not an expert on the topic but does not the screen resolution stay the same all the time even when zooming?
A great FF extension for page zooming is Default FullZoom Level. It stores the zoom level for each website.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6965
Today I stumbled upon something interesting. I changed the zoom level of a website, closed Firefox, restarted the web browser afterwards and loaded the page again. The zoom level was still on the changed level. Can it be that firefox stores Zoom levels now?
Yep, know all about Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X & Ctrl-V, but I have never come across this one before.
Just goes to show we never stop finding new things to learn.
I have to admit I never knew about this one, should definitely come in handy. Thanks heaps.
Now what’s this ctrl+c you talk about? (sorry I jest)
Thanks I knew it was there but never knew it was that simple to find
I use this feature a lot, but there is one minor problem. Some pages that were set to a certain zoom level reset themselves to the default zoom level every time I visit them. One such site is news.yahoo.com. Another is tvguide.com. Is there any way I can stop these web sites from reseting my chosen zoom level?
I use this function often.. but I’m trying to figure out if the zoom supports images like what IE does. When you zoom, they only manage texts, but not images / flash / others. Anybody know if its possible?
Found an add-on that does that. Thanks anyway!
why the hell dont they have the zoom on the browser like Safari? one of the most common buttons, yet nothing…
As much as I like this feature, do not show it to people who are not very tech savy. I showed it to my copy editor and he showed it the main editor and now I have to periodically fix their browsers because the site is all bent out of shape.
It is amazing how a person can increase a site’s size say 20 times, then decrease the font size 23 times, then go into the options to change the default font size, then wonder why the website looks weird and somehow the blame usually falls on the web designer. Plus the reset button doesn’t go back to the websites default unless you are very conservative with the way you increase and decrease sizes.
To be honest I really hate this feature.
why don’t they have zoom button right on the browser, like Safari? that is so much easier…SO MUCH!
I KNOW RIGHT :P
Thankyou It helped i have old eyes
Thankyou
I needed this my eyes suck glasses broke uhhh lol thnx