Resources ⮞ Customizing Apps
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This gives information about customizing apps to make them more usable.
Customizing Mozilla Firefox
This tells how to customize the Firefox browser app:
- Page Font Size
- Generic Sans-Serif, Serif, and Monospace Fonts
- Generic Cursive Font
- Generic Fantasy Font
Page Font Size
Often the page font is too small; rarely it’s too large. To fix this, while viewing the page …
- To enlarge the font, click .
- To shrink the font, click .
Repeat above until the size is right
Note: this does not stick; viewing another page reverts to its default font size.
Generic Sans-Serif, Serif, and Monospace Fonts
The Firefox idiots only made it possible to easily (reasonably) customize the generic sans-serif,
serif, and monospace fonts. In Firefox …
- Click on Tools, Settings, General, scroll down to Language and Appearance, and click on .
- Select among the fonts and font sizes listed.
Generic Cursive Font
The Firefox idiots made it hard to customize the generic cursive font. In Firefox,
for western (Latin) fonts …
- Enter the pseudo address about:config.
- Click the button .
- Enter font.name.cursive.x-western to see the current western generic cursive font name.
- Enter the name of the font desired.
Generic Fantasy Font
The Firefox idiots made it even harder to customize the generic fantasy font. In Firefox,
for western (Latin) fonts …
- Enter the pseudo address about:config.
- Click the button .
- Enter font.name.fantasy.x-western to see the current western generic fantasy font name (if any):
- If a there is already a fantasy font configured, enter the name of the desired font. If, however, b there is not already a fantasy font configured, click on the String radio button, click on ➕, and enter the name of the font desired.
Customizing Mozilla Thumderbird
This tells how to customize the Thunderbird eMail/newsreader app:
Font Sizes
Message Font Only
Often just the message font is too small or too large. To fix this, while viewing the message …
- To enlarge the font, click .
- To shrink the font, click .
Repeat above until the size is right
Note: this does not stick; viewing another message reverts to the default font size.
All Fonts
A common problem with Thunderbird is that all its fonts are too small. To fix this, run Thunderbird and …
- Click on Tools, Options, General, scroll to the bottom and click on .
- Click on
- Enter pixels, and double click on layout.css.devPixelsPerPx.
- Change the number (default is -1), e.g. to 1.6, click on , then repeat until size is right.
