If you find in Google Chrome font size too small on a particular page, there’s a good chance the font size on that page got accidentally set to shrink. Try pressing “Control” + “0” while on the page that’s too small to reset it. Works wonders!
Category: Design
Fonts rendering blurry in FireFox after Windows Update Solution
Agggh! I love my Firefox, but the fonts started looking awful after a recent Windows 7 and Microsoft Mouse update. I was using FF 19 and having no issue with it before.
I spent a few days trying suggestions from various support forum threads, Mozilla help, and countless website results from Google searches trying to fix it. The broken, blurry fonts made it all but unusable.
Here’s how I finally solved the problem:
- type about:config in the location bar. Promise to be careful.
- search for gfx.content.azure.enabled and click the line to set it to false by clicking on it.
- Restart Firefox.
- Hopefully rejoice!
Yay! There are an awful lot of potential tweaks suggested for this problem, but if they aren’t working for you, maybe this one will.
Thanks to this forum post for the solution!
Eliminating Page Shift
Having done a few designs where I ended up pounding my head against the wall trying to figure out what was causing page shift–where the content seems to jump to the left or right on certain pages–I understand this can drive a poor designer insane.
It’s caused by inconsistencies between how browsers handle the vertical scroll bar combined with centered content. Some browsers, like Internet Explorer, display scrollbars on all pages, while others, like Firefox, do not.
Adding this code to your stylesheet will correct the issue. ((The “-moz-scrollbars” declaration takes care of this issue in Firefox 3.5+))
html { min-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 1px; overflow: -moz-scrollbars-vertical !important;}