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Trumpton
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Firefox.

Post by Trumpton »

As I said on the other thread, I have this installed but hardly ever use it. What I don't like about it is that the text is thin and spiderish. Whereas with IE7, the text is bold and chunky.

Sam Slater
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Re: Firefox.

Post by Sam Slater »

It just looks thin and spidary because you're used to the chunky -and I think, blurry- font in IE7.

The font in Firefox and Opera is much clearer, and crisp.

Mind you, the font on Apple's Safari browser owns. Dunno if Windows Safari is the same.

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Trumpton
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Re: Firefox.

Post by Trumpton »

Yes slightly blurry on IE7.

Can the font be changed on Firefox?

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Re: Firefox.

Post by laralatex »

my votes with firefox. we never use IE anymore

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Sam Slater
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Re: Firefox.

Post by Sam Slater »

Yes Trumpy; you just enable cleartype in windows.

In XP: Right-click any part of your desktop and choose 'Properties', then the 'Appearance' tab, then click on 'Effects'.

Make sure the box 'Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts' is ticked, and then select 'CrearType' from the dropdown list. Click 'OK', the 'Apply' before exiting, and not only Firefox, but your whole system will have the font you like.

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Trumpton
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Re: Firefox.

Post by Trumpton »

Ta for that Sam - I'll give it a go !thumbsup!

Snake Diamond
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Re: Firefox.

Post by Snake Diamond »

Trumpy, visit the update site of Mozilla Firefox, there are lots of Mods for it, I have loads installed, & 1 of them is a Style changer, where you can change the layout, colour scheme, background, etc etc etc.

Also, in the View Menu at the top of the page, there is functions to change the font/text/character encoding etc...

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Re: Firefox.

Post by Snake Diamond »

Thanks Sam, I didn't know about that function, I've made a note of that. :D

You can also change the settings in the View Menu of Firefox Browser, but that's just a text/font size, not what your refering to here, lol.

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Sam Slater
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Re: Firefox.

Post by Sam Slater »

[quote]Firefox is not as user friendly as ie7[/quote]

Care to elaborate, and explain why you conclude this?

[quote]have you ever heard of a company adopting it over ie?[/quote]

This is because most companies just adopt the microsoft product blindly. Lots of big companies still use Win98, but that doesn't mean Win98 is better than XP.

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