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bolder/larger lettering in tool bar area.

14 years ago

How do I do that. Thanks

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kudzu9
14 years ago
I was trying to do the same thing a few weeks ago and found out that you can't easily accomplish this since there is no hidden setting to accomplish that in the Firefox or Internet Explorer browsers. Apparently, making these types of changes is a much bigger problem than you would think. While it's easy to increase the font size of a web page, it seems the browser can't be easily altered. Maybe there are other browsers where you can easily do it, but I don't know of them.

There are some add-ons for Firefox, but they are not without their downsides (like overly large icons). I also downloaded an add-on "theme" from a developer's web site that I installed into my browser. It had a bolder font, but the overall color scheme was very dark and sort of defeated the purpose of having somewhat larger, bolder fonts; I ended up un-installing it.

Maybe someone has found something I missed, but I'm not sure this has an easy solution.
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
14 years ago
what exactly are you meaning by toolbar? it is really really important that we get info when questions are asked Please!
I am going to guess that maybe you mean the top part of the browser where it says file edit history etc? or do you have an independent actual toolbar such as the yahoo toolbar or the google toolbar that you are asking about?? and if it is the browser you mean then which browser are you using on which Operating system?
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zep516
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Maybe this is what you mean it's a guess..

Windows XP features locking toolbars, and you can adjust them. You can customize a lot of the Windows XP features such as the Taskbar, Start Menu, and even toolbar icons in Internet Explorer and Outlook Express. Remember your right-click:

Right-click on a toolbar, and then click Lock the Toolbars to remove the check mark.

Right-click on the toolbar again, and then click Customize.

You can add and remove toolbar buttons, change text options and icon options. When you've got the toolbar customized, click Close. Now right-click on the toolbar and then click Lock the Toolbars to lock them in place.
paleblue
Original Author
14 years ago
Hi Zep...............did what you said and it's vastly
improved. Thanks so much.
kudzu9
14 years ago
zep-
I was aware you could do those things, but can you actually have a larger or bolder font. For example, I would like to have all of my toolbars with slightly bigger and darker text, and I can't seem to do that. Am I missing something simple here?
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
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kudzu9 you can certainly do a lot of changes to the firefox chrome which is that entire area where the various toolbars are, it would be by making changes(editing) the UserChrome.css, some things can probably also be changed in about:config in firefox also.
I think there are some extensions that are additional toolbar buttons which allow some of those changes by using the customize feature as zep mentions, you would add the toolbar buttons extension which adds many more options and buttons to that list. If you do some searching you can likely find ways to get it exactly how you want it.
I have my firefox chrome very customized.

The use of various themes is of course another option, and may well be the easiest route, if you go to the themes page and search for AEON Big and AEON Jumbo those are both themes for sight problems
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