When you resize text on a web page, Firefox 3 will automatically resize all the images present on that page in the same proportion. So if you increase the size of text, images get bigger and vice versa.
While image resizing function in Firefox is very smooth, the problem comes when images include text (they will look blurred) or when images are too big already – zooming will then put the image out of the browser boundaries which is inconvenient.
Fortunately, it is very easy to disable automatic image resizing in Firefox. Go to View -> Zoom and check "Zoom Text Only".
Extra Tip: To reset all the text and images to their default sizes, press the hotkey Ctrl+0 (Zero).
Related hack: Let Visitors Resize Text In Your Blog
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/software/browsers/resize-text-in-firefox-3-without-changing-the-size-of-images/2775/
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Reader Comments
gr8 tip amit
i found a lot of problem with this issue.
Written by ajay on 03.31.08
What I find very nice about the zooming feature is that FF remembers the zoom level that you had set for a given site, and if you load that site again, it will automatically adjust the zoom to that level.
Written by Vaibhav on 03.31.08
I like this feature, it doen’t exists in IE7.0. because not having this fecility IE7 irritates me.
By the way Firefox also by default offers one more good shortcut F7. If you press down arrow in any browser entire page will be scroll down but by using this shortcut key F7 you can walk through the page using cursor.
Thanks for the Tip Amit.
Dutt
Written by Dutt on 03.31.08
Thanks Amit! Could you imagine…toady was the very first time I pressed ‘ctrl and +’ at the same time to get larger text in Firefox…I am getting older, but letters are getting smaller and smaller
Written by curt s. on 04.02.08
What’s driving me nuts is they reversed the direction on the mouse. Scroll Up to Increase Size/Scroll Down to Decrease Size. It used to be the opposite! Why do they do this? Shouldn’t it match Firefox2?
Written by thunt on 05.19.08
Ah it was easy to make Firefox resize text only, thanks.
Written by Johan on 05.28.08
I agree, they have errantly reversed the scrolling direction when zooming text. Now it matches IE7. FF3 and IE7 should both change to match FF2
Why no hot-key for View > Zoom > Zoom Text Only ?
Written by JBrown on 07.25.08
Thanks for the tip!
I think that by default images shouldn’t be resized (exactly the same as in FireFox 2).
And reversing mouse scroll up/down directions feels weird. But I’m getting use to this.
Written by Dennis Gorelik on 08.28.08
This is a great feature, when using images behind text as in dropdown menus… We had a new website we were developing and one of the things we noticed in FF2 was that only the text got bigger/smaller and would break out of the background img in our dropdown menu (transparent png). We started looking at alternative menu options (ie redoing the menu so as not to use images) and then I upgraded to FF3 (not knowing about the new features). I went to my development site and lo and behold, it “worked!”
Written by Elizabeth on 09.03.08
Please — how do I get Firefox to stop applying the text size changes I make in one page on a web site to another page on the web site??
It drives me crazy. I have to increase fonts on one page, then when I open a link in another tab, I have to resize it. Then when I go back to the original page, FF has changed it to the new size.
How do I get FF to just let me change a page’s font when I need to and leave other pages alone?
Thanks in advance.
Written by Dee on 09.10.08
Thanks, those idiots at Mozilla have all but killed Firefox with the 3.0 release.
I am seeing more and more ‘how to install Firefox 2′ guides now than when FF2 came out.
Piece of shit fucks don’t deserve the cash they got from Google for searching, and certainly Google chrome underlines how much they failed to impress Google with their ability to bring something to the market.
Fucktards.
Written by Thanks on 10.05.08