MS Platform SDK Document Explorer causes fonts to change on a development machine

[bartonc]

I run my monitor at 1280 X 1024. IE7 has a great look. I can't seem to find anything even close on Firefox.

PS The new site icon still hasn't loaded. Any suggestions?

[drhowarddrfine]

The fonts are part of the OS. Windows displays the font. Firefox just calls it.

[bartonc]

The fonts are part of the OS. Windows displays the font. Firefox just calls it.

Yeah. I've been at this computer thing for a while, now, doc... I'm just trying to set the font in Firefox to something that doesn't look like c**p on the screen. I have some favorites. FF seems to be doing a poor job of rendering them, for some reason. It's most apparent in Text Controls (bookmark tree widget looks great), but front page lists are also a bit bothersome.

[bartonc]

I run my monitor at 1280 X 1024. IE7 has a great look. I can't seem to find anything even close on Firefox.

PS The new site icon still hasn't loaded. Any suggestions?

For now, I have set "Minimum font size" to 14 and checked "Allow pages to choose their own fonts" for acceptable results. But it still looks a bit funky.

[drhowarddrfine]

Well, I don't understand what you are having problems with. Go to mozilla.org and search for about:config if you want to do some down and dirty customizing. I've never bothered with changing the fonts though a lot of people like the greasemonkey extension where you can do all kinds of stuff.

[DeMan]

PS The new site icon still hasn't loaded. Any suggestions?

Now that you mention it, it seems to have disappeared on my IE7.....

[bartonc]

Now that you mention it, it seems to have disappeared on my IE7.....

I've still got it in IE7.

No joy getting FF to darken the font to more like what I'm used to, though.

[DeMan]

maybe my work one never had it........

[MMcCarthy]

PS The new site icon still hasn't loaded. Any suggestions?

Try clearing the cache. I had to do that to get it to change.

[bartonc]

Try clearing the cache. I had to do that to get it to change.

Found it. Cleared it. Got Icon. Thanks.

[MMcCarthy]

Found it. Cleared it. Got Icon. Thanks.

No problem

[bartonc]

Well, I don't understand what you are having problems with. Go to mozilla.org and search for about:config if you want to do some down and dirty customizing. I've never bothered with changing the fonts though a lot of people like the greasemonkey extension where you can do all kinds of stuff.

I think that I might have had Cute Classic turned on. Every thing looks pretty good now. Serves me right for playing around with in months ago and coming back.

[debasisdas]

I didt had to do anything.

Everything works fine by of its own.

[bartonc]

I take back everything good that I have ever said about IE7.
Firefox is a truly great piece of software. (Now if I can only get my wife to switch - oh, well; two out of three machines is a good start.)

[brett1234]

how do you get fire fox on to ur pc