On 2009-05-28_14:27:08, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Paul E Condon > <pecon...@mesanetworks.net> wrote: > > I have a desire to have iceweasel work in a way that seems not easy > > to configure: > > > > Now, when iceweasel starts, the text and graphics are always displayed > > too large to fit within the window in which it is displayed. As a > > consequence there is always, or almost always, a horizontal scroll bar > > at the bottom of the window. I can make the text and graphics fit > > within the window by selecting View->Zoom->Zoom Out twice or thrice. > > Selecting a smaller font, which I know how to do, does satisfy me, > > because it is the graphical elements that I want smaller. They are just > > TOO BIG, and waste a lot of space that would better be used with a > > visually pleasing emptiness. > > > > I would like to configure iceweasel to ALWAYS bring up new windows at > > zoom level two Zoom_Outs. I think I will never want the current > > default level, but, if I ever do, I'll just zoom-in twice. > > Have you tried setting browser.zoom.full, in about:config, to 'false'? > It's true by default. I haven't tried it and so don't know if it's > responsive to your problem, but maybe the browser will retain your > settings if that's set to false. > > Patrick
Per your suggestion, I tried. Setting this to false seems to disable the Zoom feature entirely, leaving me no way to change image size to what I want. Had this been the default, I would have never known that what I want is possible at all. But thanks for the suggestion. I had forgotten about "about:config", and have never really understood where it fit into the larger scheme of things. A question: Is there any documentation of what all these setting are supposed to do? Short of reading the source code, which is not really documentation of what "they are *supposed* to do". "supposed to do" is an issue of programmer intent. The source is a statement of what the program *actually does, as written*. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org