there are some wonderful add-ons for firefox that you will want to add, first is ad block plus with the easylist subscription that will block all the annoying ads you normally see. To do that click to add it to fire fox then when is says you need to restart firefox do that then go to the link for easylist and click on where it says add easylist to ad block plus you can restart firefox again to make sure it took Adblock Plus :: Add-ons for Firefox EasyList there you go that will install ad block plus and your easylist for you. Check out the add-ons page you will find so many that will help you. Like the no squint that was mentioned NoSquint 2.1 this link may be a little outdated but a lot of it will still apply to the new version of firefox Learn Firefox to change your font size and type in firefox click on Tools options that will bring up your settings box. Go through those various tabs to learn what all is there. The first page will have your homepage settings, and where you want thing to go to when you do a download. Under content you can change fonts and sizes etc the privacy tab has some settings you may want to look at and adjust, I always block 3rd party cookies. when you need to clear your cache or cookies etc just click on Tools then clear recent history that brings up the options for exactly what you want cleared and also pay attention to the time frame option it has a drop down menu to select from.

Thanks, DA and owbist, for the additional input ! :-) owbist, that's something I may consider in the future. For now, though, acquiring an additional monitor is a bit too costly for the use I'd make of it. :-/ DA, to be a bit more specific... my goal in part is to have the other user be able to (among other things) play the Pogo games without squinting ;-) and have me able to access my daily websites without horizontal scrolling if at all possible. While your F11, Ctrl +/- suggestion is very helpful (!), it wouldn't resolve the Pogo issues, since those games have a pop-up play area that isn't affected by those functions. And since the other user finds the native 1280 x 1024 setting too hard on the eyes, we've had Resolution Changer on this computer ever since we got the LCD monitor nearly two years ago, in order to have the monitor set at 1024 x 768 all the time. That setting allows the Pogo games to be more viewable/enjoyable for the other person and has been fine for me -- until this most recent issue: one of my email providers (EuMX.net) upgraded their RoundCube webmail to a version which, for some reason, does not fit on my non-widescreen monitor's display without the horizontal scrollbar. So, since we already have this 'utility' on the computer for easy viewing anyway, I was curious enough to ask if it would be too hard on the computer or the monitor if I were to begin using it to jump back-and-forth between the two resolution settings. I'm glad to find out it wouldn't. :-)

Are you on a laptop, or a desktop w/ separate monitor ? I assume you've rebooted. When you say : "The picture is also distorted, scrunched to the side with overlapping words" . . . . you mean all to one side ? Can you take a photo and post it ? When you say, for using Control +/- "The only thing I succeeded in doing was make my E Bay page really big. Nothing else." . . . so the page gets bigger - but still doesn't look right ? What about just the plain desktop - how does that look ? And what about when you launch something like Word . . . how does that look ? My first thought was too large a resolution. Have you tried actually changing the resolutions lower, then back up again ? But since you say it's the same, I'm thinking you might need to reinstall or update your video driver, or perhaps your video card circuitry has become defective, but I'd need to know the answers to those questions. This post was edited by kbarb on Tue, Feb 3, 15 at 2:25

Thanks bbbluz. Have tried all on the link you provided. Did improve a couple of problems, but the darned "Bookmarks", toolbar and tabs remain teenie, tiny and barely readable. I'm using FF 38.0.1 and OS X Yosemite 10.10.3.