Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-05-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 10 May 2016 20:16:30 John L. Ries wrote: > traditionally hanged on Guy Fawkes Day. No, traditionally burned on Guy Fawkes Day. Lisi

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-05-10 Thread Joe
On Tue, 10 May 2016 19:16:30 + "John L. Ries" wrote: > > gender, and it is "man"kind. But I object to "Sirs"!!! > > Me too! I definitely haven't been knighted. > None of my male teachers had, either, but... -- Joe

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-05-10 Thread John L. Ries
s...@slingshot.co.nz> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 2:05 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: all at a sudden Firefox On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 08:39:58PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 01 May 2016 19:43:37 Curt wrote: > > As far as here goes, in mixed company, the masculi

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-05-10 Thread cbannister
On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 08:39:58PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 01 May 2016 19:43:37 Curt wrote: > > As far as here goes, in mixed company, the masculine form takes > > precedence (which may or may not have anything to do with anything). > > Depending. "Guys" can indeed sometimes be used

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-05-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2016-05-01 23:29:06 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I start suspecting that with the update to Firefox 46 something that > handles 4K screen fonts changed and thus the problem showed up. Firefox 46 switched to GTK3. So, I wouldn't be surprised if there were some related changes. At least,

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-05-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 02 May 2016 03:31:50 Doug wrote: > On 05/01/2016 01:07 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > > On Sun, 01 May 2016 09:13:30 +, Curt wrote: > >> I suppose you've tried the obvious (cough) like starting Firefox in safe > >> mode, > >> refreshing the sucker, renaming prefs.js, using a virgin

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-05-01 Thread Doug
On 05/01/2016 01:07 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: On Sun, 01 May 2016 09:13:30 +, Curt wrote: I suppose you've tried the obvious (cough) like starting Firefox in safe mode, refreshing the sucker, renaming prefs.js, using a virgin profile and the like (or have you already told us that

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-05-01 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 01 May 2016 17:42:33 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 5/1/2016 2:15 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> On Sun, 01 May 2016 07:44:22 -0500, John Hasler wrote: >> >>> File a bug with Mozilla. >> >> I would do it gladly if I only could reproduce it or at list give a >> minimal lead of how and

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-05-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 5/1/2016 2:15 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: On Sun, 01 May 2016 07:44:22 -0500, John Hasler wrote: File a bug with Mozilla. I would do it gladly if I only could reproduce it or at list give a minimal lead of how and when it happened. I would suspect that a vague &/or malformed report is

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-05-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 01 May 2016 19:43:37 Curt wrote: > As far as here goes, in mixed company, the masculine form takes > precedence (which may or may not have anything to do with anything). Depending. "Guys" can indeed sometimes be used as the common gender, and it is "man"kind. But I object to

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-05-01 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 01 May 2016 07:44:22 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > File a bug with Mozilla. I would do it gladly if I only could reproduce it or at list give a minimal lead of how and when it happened.

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-05-01 Thread Curt
On 2016-05-01, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > > It looks like people at your place still use two distinct terms. :-) > Where are you? > I was just needling you in a light-hearted manner. As this is an international list, who knows what sensibilities might be aroused by

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-05-01 Thread John Hasler
Juan R. de Silva writes: > Seriously. This one was quite an interesting remark. You see, these > days, here on Canadian West Coast, most of people, especially young > people, use "guys" for both guys and gals. And it always seemed to me > that gals were promoting this change more actively than

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-05-01 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 01 May 2016 09:13:30 +, Curt wrote: > I suppose you've tried the obvious (cough) like starting Firefox in safe > mode, > refreshing the sucker, renaming prefs.js, using a virgin profile and the > like (or have you already told us that upthread somewhere). Yes, I tried all these. >

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-05-01 Thread John Hasler
File a bug with Mozilla. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-05-01 Thread Curt
On 2016-05-01, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > > I guess I hit some weird Firefox or one of his addons bug and I don't > even have a clue how to reproduce it. > I suppose you've tried the obvious (cough) like starting Firefox in safe mode, refreshing the sucker, renaming

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-30 Thread Juan R. de Silva
After trying all suggestions I am giving up. And here a new finding. If I ever load a new page at least once and correct the fonts by hitting Ctl-++, then, even if I delete all history, including cache, cookies, etc., and go to that website/page again it loads with the desired fonts. So, as it

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-30 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 07:22:00 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Michael writes: >> Set your font sizes to something else other than is displayed in the >> dialog. Save the change, exit firefox, relaunch and reset the font size >> back to what ever you need. Quit and relaunch. Any better? > > Worth a

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-30 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 07:05:39 +0100, Michael wrote: > On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 02:18 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:28:14 -0500, John Hasler wrote: >> >> >> Well, do you really think I would make a post without checking such an >> obvious thing first? >> >> The default

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-30 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:41:16 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Juan R. de Silva writes: >> Well, do you really think I would make a post without checking such an >> obvious thing first? > > Well, not knowing you, yes. Why should I be the only one to ever > overlook the obvious? Yes, it is a good

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-29 Thread John Hasler
Lisi writes: > No, they just ignore anything I have asked for. Did you uncheck "Allow pages..." ? Also, I don't think any of that stuff has any effect if the pages are JS. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-29 Thread John Hasler
Lisi writes: > Many sites don't take a blind bit of notice of my settings. That's what the "minimum" setting in Preferences->Content->Advanced is for. Badly-designed pages (i.e., the usual kind) may garble themselves if you set the minimum font size much above what the 28 year old designer

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-29 Thread John Hasler
Michael writes: > Set your font sizes to something else other than is displayed in the > dialog. Save the change, exit firefox, relaunch and reset the font > size back to what ever you need. Quit and relaunch. Any better? Worth a try, though you normally don't need to restart Firefox for font

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-29 Thread Michael
On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 02:18 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:28:14 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > >  > Well, do you really think I would make a post without checking such > an  > obvious thing first? > > The default font sizes (serif, 16) are there. Nevertheless, all new >

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-28 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 29/04/2016 9:43 AM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > All at a sudden Firefox started opening all websites with tiny fonts. I > have to hit Ctl++ several times on each new page to be able to reed it. > > The only thing changed before the problem showed up - Google Chrome wa

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-28 Thread John Hasler
Juan R. de Silva writes: > Well, do you really think I would make a post without checking such an > obvious thing first? Well, not knowing you, yes. Why should I be the only one to ever overlook the obvious? > The default font sizes (serif, 16) are there. Nevertheless, all new pages > open

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-28 Thread Felix Miata
Juan R. de Silva composed on 2016-04-28 23:43 (UTC): All at a sudden Firefox started opening all websites with tiny fonts. I have to hit Ctl++ several times on each new page to be able to reed it. The only thing changed before the problem showed up - Google Chrome was updated to the latest

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-28 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:28:14 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Juan R. de Silva writes: >> All at a sudden Firefox started opening all websites with tiny fonts. I >> have to hit Ctl++ several times on each new page to be able to reed it. > > Go to Menu->Preferences->Cont

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-28 Thread John Hasler
Juan R. de Silva writes: > All at a sudden Firefox started opening all websites with tiny > fonts. I have to hit Ctl++ several times on each new page to be able > to reed it. Go to Menu->Preferences->Content and set your font sizes. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-28 Thread Juan R. de Silva
All at a sudden Firefox started opening all websites with tiny fonts. I have to hit Ctl++ several times on each new page to be able to reed it. The only thing changed before the problem showed up - Google Chrome was updated to the latest version via apt-get. No other changes to the system were