Harry Putnam wrote: > Can anyone here coach me a little about getting a decent look in > firefox. > > I've monkeyed around with the font settings endlessly but it seems I > can only get a look where like in a google search.. The hits are > displayed in a decent and reasonable size. But the font size in the > search box where you enter your terms is much bigger.... It seams nothing I > do in the supplied font adjustment settings has any effect on that > font. > > You can see the window grab here: > www.jtan.com/~reader/vu/disp.cgi > > It doesn't look all that bad but notice how big the font in the search > box is compared to the index of hits. The font inside search box is > not bold but is a fair bit larger font size than even the headlines in > the index of hits. > > How do you control the font inside that search box? And how do you > get a reliable size in the rest of it.. I tried checked and unchecked > on the item that says [] let the pages show their own fonts. > Doesn't seem to matter either way > > I've tried numerous setting on the various font sizes available in the > Edit/preferences font and advanced dialogs. But I haven't found a > combination the just works for most stuff. > > > >
I have the same thing in Seamonkey. The problem is that you can adjust the font size but not the size of the box itself. Google in this case controls that. I don't know of a way to workaround this myself. I have seen this same thing on different sites so it is not going to be just google either. Dale :-) :-)
