"Make text and other items larger or smaller"

[DTS]

"Make it easier to read what's on your screen"

There's this option (under "Screen resolution") in Windows 7 to increase the size of text and icons, basically the whole windows GUI, to 125% or 150%. It seems to work fine until I use Firefox, then I find that it has all images both on webpages and viewed on their own zoomed to 150%. In Irfanview, images display correctly, but I don't want to have to view an image in Irfanview just so it's not blurry zoomed 150%.

I appreciate that smilies will match the font zoom this way, but I'd prefer it to be optional, like the "Zoom text only" option that Firefox has instead of "Zoom text and images". I searched the internet for a solution to this but just get loads of bogus results; like ones saying you can set the zoom option in Firefox like I just stated. I already know that, that's not the problem!

Basically, Windows zooms everything 150% including images for icons, and the effect continues into some other programs, specifically Firefox. I want a way of disabling its affect in Firefox for images specifically.

Is there a way of doing this?
Please help.

[SoM]

have u tried setting it in windows to what u want, then going back to FF and change the setting u want FF to use ?

[DTS]

Yes; there doesn't seem to be any way to set it in Firefox cause it doesn't use the usual "Zoom" command.

[MKJ]

I tihnk what SoM means is can't you use a smaller zoom size, like 80%, to compensate for the zoomed content?

tho FF probably zooms text and images differently so that might not be the most ideal situation.

[SoM]

that might work

or try what i said but in reverse...

[DTS]

You can zoom out to the equivalent size, yes, but though Firefox will allow a "text only" zoom it doesn't have an "images only" zoom. Also, zooming out all the time would be a pain. Theres no apparent way to set the default zoom to smaller.

Another thing is Firefox doesn't seem to know it's "zoomed in", saying it's displaying an image at its original size.

[SoM]

shouldn't there be a plugin for FF for that ?

i'm on chrome sry

my uncle messed up my FF

[SoM]

what's your vid card and monitor ?

[SoM]

i have nvidia, but try DPI scaling

[SoM]

here's the DPI setting process for nvidia tho

FF support site, have a read tho

search in google other results

will help mo re tomorrow, i'm tired n wasted and didn't sleep for 2 days..

good luck

[DTS]

I found a plugin that allows you to set the default zoom (67%, suitable for 150% GUI zoom), but not to zoom "images only". Should I look harder?

I read some of that Firefox support page and it just made me think I should install Chrome

[obsidian]

Have you tried getting glasses?

[DTS]

This is basically cause I am contemplating a higher res monitor and sit far from mine.

The one I want is 2560 x 1080. (The LG EA93, if you're interested.)
Maybe I could run it at 1280 x 540 and switch to 2560 x 1080 quickly with PowerStrip (or something) when I want to go high res? (It wouldn't look blurry cause it's exactly half, so pixel perfect.)

Would it accept a custom res of 1280 x 540 from the graphics card? Do LCDs accept custom resses easily like that, or are they pretty much locked to their native res? I wouldn't need to use a hacked monitor driver or something, would I? It should be simple cause halving the res precicely is pixel-perfect.

I was just seeing what I can do high res-wise on my current PC first, so I'm prepared when I get that monitor (and a new PC to go with it).

[SoM]

did a different search just for font size..

have a lookie

try from step 7

[SoM]

ps, aero is in win7 home

that must've been pre-rc.