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Force a minimum font size in Chimera Web Browsers
One thing that has always made Chimera unusable for me as a browser has been the lack of an option to specify a minium font sizes, meaning many fonts displayed far too small for my limited eyesight.

On a hunch, I added the following line to the prefs.js file:
  user_pref("font.minimum-size.x-western", 14);
You can change 14 to any font size, and Chimera will never display fonts smaller than that size, regardless of what the page specifies.
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Not working for me
Authored by: shivkumarjha on Sep 24, '02 10:51:22AM

Any Comments???



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A bit more detail
Authored by: monickels on Sep 24, '02 04:05:30PM

To get this to work:

1. Quit Chimera.

2. Open the prefs.js file, likely found at /Users/yourusername/Library/Application\ Support/Chimera/Profiles/default/somemumbojumbo/prefs.js.

3. Add the line in the original hint to the end of the list of preferences. Make sure to remove any extra spaces before and after.

4. Save the file, and close it.

5. Relaunch Chimera. Let it launch all the way. Load a page. Do not fool with the preferences.

6. Quit Chimera.

7. Reopen prefs.js. You should see that the preference you pasted in has now moved to the middle of the list, and the default value you gave it has probably changed (mine changed to 14). Change the default value to whatever you'd like. Save the file.

8. Relaunch Chimera. All should be better now.



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try user.js
Authored by: a1291762 on Sep 24, '02 06:02:10PM

Make a file called user.js and place it next to the prefs.js file.

Anything in this file gets read but is not overwritten.



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or use Mozilla to set prefs
Authored by: mclbruce on Sep 24, '02 09:13:46PM

You can set a lot of preferences in Mozilla that can't be set in Chimera-Navigator. I've found that copying or moving your prefs.js file from it's Mozilla location to it's Chimera location can be helpful.

Chimera will accespt a lot of the Mozilla preferences. Turning off looping GIF files is one example.



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Great looking fonts ? Add...
Authored by: tarkin on Sep 27, '02 04:06:40PM

this to prefs.js or user.js : (i found the pref panel to be buggy)

user_pref("font.name.monospace.x-western", "Monaco");
user_pref("font.name.serif.x-western", "Arial");
user_pref("font.size.variable.x-western", 15);

I have this in my user.js :

user_pref("browser.display.screen_resolution", 96);

this is a security fix :

user_pref("capability.policy.default.Window.onunload", "noAccess");



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change non-western font sizes as well
Authored by: Typhoon14 on Sep 29, '02 06:23:42PM

For those who often visit sites containing non-latin characters (such as myself), you can set the minimum size for those as well by putting the following lines into user.js or prefs.js:

user_pref("font.minimum-size.x-western", 14);
user_pref("font.minimum-size.hi-IN", 14);
user_pref("font.minimum-size.ja", 14);
user_pref("font.minimum-size.ko", 14);
user_pref("font.minimum-size.tr", 14);
user_pref("font.minimum-size.x-baltic", 14);
user_pref("font.minimum-size.x-central-euro", 14);
user_pref("font.minimum-size.x-unicode", 14);
user_pref("font.minimum-size.x-user-def", 14);
user_pref("font.minimum-size.x-western", 14);
user_pref("font.minimum-size.zh-CN", 14);
user_pref("font.minimum-size.zh-TW", 14);



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