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"John Chambers,,,781-647-1813" wrote: > This is something I've done routinely, but so far I've never found > any version of Netscape on any machine that honors it. I've also > found that setting the font size to 18 or 24 points doesn't usually > affect those tiny fonts at all; it only seems to affect text in which > the page doesn't set the font size. But if the page sets the font > size, then Netscape always honors the page's font size, no matter > what I do with my settings. Well, try my tried and true settings and see what happens. Use http://www.slashdot.org as a reference. With these settings, Slashdot should look pretty reasonable (not too big, not too small). I have my 17" monitor set to 1152x864 at 24bit color, so adjust accordingly. Here are my Netscape "Fonts" settings: Edit-->Preferences-->Appearance-->Fonts Fonts and Encodings: For the Encoding: [Western (iso-8859-1)] Variable Width Font: Times (Adobe) Size: 18 Allow Scaling: [not checked] Fixed Width Font: [Courier (Adobe)] Size: 18 Allow Scaling: [not checked] Sometimes a document will provide its own fonts < > . . . < > . . . <x> Use document-specified fonts, including dynamic fonts ________________________________________ As for the Messenger problem you're having, try starting it some different ways and see what happens. You can have it set to start on Netscape's start-up by setting that preference in the "Appearance" preferences. You can try it with Alt+2 when Netscape is started. But this crashing shouldn't happen anyway. Maybe try the latest version of Netscape (4.7). _______________________________________ There's a file in ~/.netscape called "preferences.js". That's where all your settings get saved. You could look around through that and hand-hack it if you really don't think Netscape is saving your preferences. -- Scott Stirling West Newton, MA sstirlin at gis.net http://www.gis.net/~sstirlin - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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