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Comment by OJFord | Hacker News Reader

This page is way too 'big' - if I zoom out to 50% the text is much more readable, but of course that makes it occupy a silly width, and the navigation far too small.

Is there a better way to handle (as a user) scaling content? Maybe custom CSS to change the font size that's remembered per domain?

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In Firefox, in the menu (press Alt if it's not visible by default):

View > Zoom > Zoom Text Only

and then zoom in/out as you desire.

The setting is unfortunately global, so you can't zoom in the page on some sites and zoom in the text on others. (You can toggle the setting, though, and the "zoom amount" is remembered per-site, irrespective of toggling.)

There are probably also some extensions that would be more flexible and work on more browsers. (I'm pretty sure that Vimperator (RIP) had an option to separately change text size and overall zoom.)

Thanks, I didn't know about text-only zoom.

> the "zoom amount" is remembered per-site, irrespective of toggling.

I'm pretty sure it isn't with stock Firefox - I use an extension for that.

Firefox reader mode does the trick for me.

It works that great I usually don't even try to read articles in their newspapers own layout.

There's probably a chrome/Safari equivalent.

Thanks, I do use FF, and have used reader mode occasionally (usually on mobile to avoid obnoxious pop-ups or footers when ublock is more of a pain to use) - but what I hadn't found until you commented was the font size, width, line height, and background colour settings. That's pretty great.

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