Firefox used to have a good way of displaying bookmarks. Now it seem to be displaying them as badly as Chrome does.
About a year ago I switched from Firefox to Chrome because I thought it would be faster. For the last year I've been trying to get Chrome to use bookmarks like Firefox because I hate the way Chrome uses them. I recently gave up on trying to fix Chromes lousy handling of bookmarks and tried to switch back to Firefox. Firefox got all the bookmarks that Chrome had in it and appears to be stubbornly trying to emulate Chrome and it's handling of bookmarks. Nothing I've tried has fixed the issue. One of the best things about Firefox was it's handling of bookmarks; now I'v got two browsers with crappy bookmarks. WHY THE HELL DID YOU REDESIGN THIS PART OF FIREFOX?
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You can set layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to 1.0 (default is -1) on the about:config page. Adjust its value in 0.1 or 0.05 steps (1.1 or 0.9) until icons or text looks right. Modifying layout.css.devPixelsPerPx affects user interface and web pages (global zoom).
You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.
You can look at Zoom Page WE and NoSquint Plus extension to set a default font size and page zoom on web pages.
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/zoom-page-we/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/nosquint-plus/
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Could you please explain the problem without refering to G Chrome? We don't know that browser. Screenshots are appreciated.
You can add the "Bookmarks Menu" button that shows the bookmarks in a drop-down list to the Navigation Toolbar via these steps:
- click the bookshelf icon on the Navigation Toolbar or alternatively use the Library menu in the "3-bar" Firefox menu button drop-down list
- click Bookmarks
- click "Bookmarking Tools", then click "Add Bookmarks Menu to Toolbar"
You can also drag the Bookmarks Menu button from the Customize palette to the Navigation Toolbar
See also "How do I add the Bookmarks Menu button to the toolbar?":
Thank you for trying to help. My eyes are not as good as they used to be, is there a way of choosing the font and size of the font used in the bookmarks? Thank you again.
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JimCName,
Pleas see this answer by jscher2000. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1206846#answer-1081944
Can you give more detail about where you want to modify the fonts for Bookmarks?
Is that in the sidebar or in the Bookmarks Manager (Library) or in the Bookmarks Menu drop-down list (see my above reply)?
You can use code in userChrome.css top modify font settings for specific elements in the user interface. If you tell us where you want to make changes then we can give more detail.
See also:
- https://www.userchrome.org/how-create-userchrome-css.html
- https://www.userchrome.org/what-is-userchrome-css.html
This page shows some more examples of what is possible with userContent.css by the author of Classic Theme Restorer.
specifically the letters that make up the bookmarks in the bookmark drop down menu are too small; there difficult for me to see. My vision is getting bad. All the text that is part of Firefox itself (eg tab labels, toolbar words, menus, etc) would be much easier for me to see if they were about twice as big. Does anyone know how to change the type and size of the fonts that Firefox itself uses. I have found extensions that do that for the web pages that Firefox is looking at but not for Firefox itself.
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You can set layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to 1.0 (default is -1) on the about:config page. Adjust its value in 0.1 or 0.05 steps (1.1 or 0.9) until icons or text looks right. Modifying layout.css.devPixelsPerPx affects user interface and web pages (global zoom).
You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.
You can look at Zoom Page WE and NoSquint Plus extension to set a default font size and page zoom on web pages.
Cor-el Thank you; thank you; thank you. I can actually see the bookmarks now. You're probably a guy but I feel like kissing you anyways.