I was having a problem with my status bar freezing or hanging when I tried to get in some of the sites I visit. Also our cable company has been doing maintenance in our area so I called them. The tech I talked to the second time said it sounds more like a router problem. I told him I have Linksys, he replied so did he and he sometimes had to unplug and plug it back in, 2 or 3 times a day to work on line. He suggested I disconnect the router for a few days to see if my PC works properly. I did that early this AM and it has been fine so far. I will know more in the morning when I turn the PC on. Since some others had a problem with freezing/hanging on the status bar, this info might help them.

Change your Resolution Right click your empty screen on your desktop - left click properties - click settings - move slider bar to less - this gives you 800 x 600 - you have 15 seconds to click OK - click Apply - close. This setting is changed back the same way For Internet Explorer 6,0 For 7.0 you will need to use the Alt Key to find the old Toolbar. Start - All programs - Internet Explorer - View Tab - Text size - Largest. Or Smallest Settings that affect your websites. Under certain conditions you can hold down on the CTRL Key and turn the wheel on your mouse to enlarge print.

You might try in the internet options for Fonts, Webpage Font,,, Veranda I use it, its a larger clearified font. You can also hold down Ctrl key while rolling your mouse scroll button. It will zoom/unzoom fonts .

when you go to the tools options fonts area then to advanced and make your changes did you remember to hit ok at the bottom for it to take effect? did you shut down all instances of firefox then restart it to have the changes go into effect? It works for me I have mine set at 20 and 13, on min. I have None, I do have the box checked for let them choose their own size. That is the front end for settings in your about:config file, to make changes directly to your about:config do this open firefox in the url box type about:config go, you will see your entire about:config settings page. Scroll down till you get to the f's there will be several fonts settings listed, go to the one that is bolded for font.size.fixed.x-western you will see the columns to the right they are on mine user set, integer, 13 that 13 is the set font size, you can change that number, I suggest you write down what it was before so you can change it back should you need to. Just hilight the number and change it. Then you will see another one bolded font.size.variable.x-western, user set, integer, 20 on mine, again you can change that number but write down what it was. Then shut down firefox and restart it for the changes to take effect. Anytime you change any settings you always have to shut down firefox and then restart for it to show the changes so if you were not doing that in your other settings that could be your problem. there is an add on that will save the settings for webpages for you too, go to the extensions page and do a search, I don't remember what it is called but search on text size or font size. I use an extension called text size toolbar wHich I love you can search for it and read about it you might want it too.