I also use "no squint" and it's great. You can adjust size and color of the text or the size of everything on the monitor. It will also change the colors of the background from that bright white. It really helps with eye strain.

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.

People at other forums sent me the following. Perhaps this will help for someone: I found thet following explanation at http://www.saila.com/usage/tips/?print#textfield. He has some other good tips too. Here's what he says: Unfortunately, both Netscape and Internet Explorer display form fields using different criteria. Because, Netscape uses the browser's monospaced font to render text in a text field, and IE uses a variable font  generally sans-serif typeface  it's best to optimize the box for Netscape first. Once you've done that, use a style declaration (which older Netscapes will ignore) to stretch the box for Internet Explorer. Here are three examples. RIGHT CLICK WITH YOUR MOUSE AND CHOOSE "VIEW SOURCE" TO SEE THE SOURCE CODE FOR THE THREE BOXES. A plain Netscape 4.7 text input box: An IE 5.5 text input box, styled to match the size of the Netscape box (the padding helps vertically align the text): An IE 5.5 text input box, styled to match the size and look of the Netscape box (the border and font simulate Netscape's): -------------------------- Another guy suggested this not great solution: "I decrease the NS size by using the style "font-family: new courier" for input boxes. But it doesn't decrease them as much as I'd like." -------------------------- Another guy says: "I have the same problem with text input fields in Netscape 6. Text fields are inside table cells and Netscape makes them approximately 1/3 too long no matter what the cell widths are. I use a self-declared css class in which I have declared the font sizes and types. The field size can't be delared in stylesheet because the html for input fields is generated by an xsl-template which should be able to be used for different-sized fields. It's a big problem because I have a very limited space in the frame." -------------------------- In my own case, I took a not-great dummy approach. The problem with over-sized NS 4.7 boxes only occurred when I was using Styles. Without styles, the box behaved in NS. So I stopped using styles for that page. It made some other stuff look not so hot, but I was willing to sacrifice to get those NS boxes the right size. Here is a link that might be useful: tip on text box size and other tips

That is the registry fix worked on 8 but according to posters who have this same problem, says it doesn't work on 8.1. I am going to play around with enlarging every thing and possibly using one of my FF apps to work on the other. I can use it the way it is, it's just one of those things that nags at me and keeps me looking for a fix. I had a problem with personalize/color (taskbar) and kept messing with it until I stumbled on a fix. My taskbar was snow white and didn't match my wallpaper, all the borders were snow white. the option shown below was missing.