Far from being a waste of time, I think your answer zoomed in (excuse the pun) on the key thing, Theophan, so thank-you! I hadn't even thought of a 'zoom' feature on my friend's machine.
However, I've subsequently had my friend check her Firefox 3.0.8 zoom, and she said: "I reset to 0 and the website fills my entire screen. If I zoom out it gradually decreases until I guess you get to the page size you intended. So it seems it is automatically set to maximum magnification." No amount of googling "Firefox Zoom default" brought any description of any way of automatically setting FF to always zoom, so I'm wondered if it could be her computer -- a Mac OS X 10.5.6 with Leopard. However, although I found info on a zoom feature for that computer, it didn't mention any feature that would automatically zoom everything, all the time. Any idea what could be doing this? Many thanks! Michael ________________________________ From: Theophan Dort <theop...@bellsouth.net> To: Michael Leibson <michael_mabe...@yahoo.ca> Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 8:59:52 AM Subject: Re: [css-d] Firefox bug on on new Macs? I'm not an expert, just a volunteer webmaster for a couple of churches, so this is probably a waste of your time, but just in case: Firefox's default zoom now essentially magnifies the entire page, just as you seem to be describing. Is it possible that somehow when you viewed that page his browser was set to a zoom setting other than default, or that his default for some reason is larger than normal? Was it only your site? Did it change if you hit Command-Zero? Theophan On Apr 10, 2009, at 7:43 AM, Michael Leibson wrote: > Hi; > > I used Firefox to view my website on a friend's zillion-pixel-wide new Mac, > yesterday, and I was astonished to find that all elements on all pages had a > significantly increased width, so that the design was effectively spread, > horizontally, to fit the (maximized) window. This would have pleased me, > were my design fluid -- but it isn't: it's fixed! > > The site is www.thinkingmusic.ca . The home page's main div (a sandy > grey colour) should be 790px wide, and the slate-blue navigation div, > immediately to its left, should be 244px wide (including border). > > Anyone have any idea what might be going on? I've always thought that Firefox > uniformly reproduces css-based designs, regardless of operating platform. . . > > Thanks, in advance, for any clues you'd care to share! > > Michael > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! > Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
