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    Limiting font size in Firefox.

    Is there a way, in Firefox, to set a maximum font size? I'm thinking of
    something that would function similar to the existing minimum font size,
    but that limits the maximum size instead.

    Some eBay sellers seem to think that potential bidders want to scroll
    excessively just to read an auction description containing three-inch tall
    font characters.

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    Limiting font size in Firefox.

    Its a temporary solution, but View>>Text Size, can decrease the fonts.
    CTRL + or- is handy when you have a problem page.

    It won't stick, but it may serve you well on an occasional problem like
    this.

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    Limiting font size in Firefox.

    When I see such things (not only on Ebay) the page is most times a
    template that can be change online by the users. If the user change
    the font size in those cases there will be two tags for the size for
    the same text, one with the depricated <font face="x"> and one using
    CSS <div style=font-size:yypx;> (where x and yy is the number).

    So I'll guess IE and Mozilla don't use the same tag to display the
    text size.

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    Limiting font size in Firefox.

    I had a similar question lately and have discovered that
    if I use the following line in my usercontent.css file, I get
    satisfactory results.

    * { font-size: 11px !important }

    Seems to work on 99% of all text on sites, at least that i can tell.

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    Limiting font size in Firefox.

    Quote Originally Posted by TheGreatOne View Post
    I had a similar question lately and have discovered that
    if I use the following line in my usercontent.css file, I get
    satisfactory results.

    * { font-size: 11px !important }

    Seems to work on 99% of all text on sites, at least that i can tell.
    Thanks. I'll give that a try.

    Ideally, I could set it up to display all fonts at their original size, if
    they are within a specified range of points. Otherwise, they would be
    rendered to the nearest size within my acceptable range.

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    Limiting font size in Firefox.

    Quote Originally Posted by TheGreatOne View Post
    I had a similar question lately and have discovered that
    if I use the following line in my usercontent.css file, I get
    satisfactory results.

    * { font-size: 11px !important }

    Seems to work on 99% of all text on sites, at least that i can tell.
    I put this in my usercontent.css file, after adjusting the size to my
    preference, and noticed the effect as soon as I restarted Firefox. I think
    this will work until someone actually adds a real maximum size setting.

    I have one other request related to this. How would I force the font to be
    bold? The reason I ask is that my eyes are a bit bad. Because of this, I
    have my size set to 16px. At size 16, the characters are a medium thickness
    that I can easily read. As soon as I drop to 15, the characters become so
    thin that I can't tell what they are. Forcing bold should allow me to
    reduce the size to around 13 or 14 and still be readable. I already tried
    "Arial Black", but that's far too thick. I've tried nearly 200 fonts so
    far. "Comic Sans MS" is probably the easiest for me to read, but, like most
    of the others, it won't go smaller than 16 without becoming very thin.

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    Limiting font size in Firefox.

    Quote Originally Posted by Philip Neri View Post
    I have one other request related to this. How would I force the font to be
    bold? The reason I ask is that my eyes are a bit bad. Because of this, I
    have my size set to 16px. At size 16, the characters are a medium thickness
    that I can easily read. As soon as I drop to 15, the characters become so
    thin that I can't tell what they are. Forcing bold should allow me to
    reduce the size to around 13 or 14 and still be readable. I already tried
    "Arial Black", but that's far too thick. I've tried nearly 200 fonts so
    far. "Comic Sans MS" is probably the easiest for me to read, but, like most
    of the others, it won't go smaller than 16 without becoming very thin.

    http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/edit#content should have some
    suggestions, iirc.

    Also, Verdana doesn't work as a font for you? Seems this one looks good
    to me regardless of the size.

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    Limiting font size in Firefox.

    Quote Originally Posted by TheGreatOne View Post
    http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/edit#content should have some
    suggestions, iirc.

    Also, Verdana doesn't work as a font for you? Seems this one looks good
    to me regardless of the size.
    It mentions what the file is for, but not what to put into it. I did a
    google search and found this though: http://www.squarefree.com/userstyles/

    I came up with:

    /* Limit font size */
    * { font-size: 14px !important }
    * { font-weight: bold !important }

    This works well for my bad eyes. It's easy enough to adjust the size or to
    change the bold to normal if needed.

    I also made another change to my usercontent.css file, which I wish I knew
    about in the past.

    /* Make javascript links green */
    a[href^="javascript:"] { color: #00AA00 !important }

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