Why is zoom greyed out and how can it be re-enabled?
All of a sudden this has been greyed out in Thunderbird. It was fine last night when I shut off my computer.
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I tackle it by setting the minimum font size. Then you never have to zoom (at least for reading message text.)
I have never known zoom work on the user interface. In fact, users often complain that while they can zoom to see message text, they cannot zoom the menus and message lists.
The Theme Font & Size Changer add-on is the traditional solution for small text in the menus and message lists, but at present it is broken.
There are temporary fixes available, as listed here.
I wonder if you have been using a generalised accessibility aid that zooms the whole desktop?
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'View' > 'Zoom' > 'Zoom in' or use key Ctrl and + 'View' > 'Zoom' > 'Zoom out' or use key Ctrl and -
These options are usually greyed out if you have selected the mail account name in the Folder Pane.
They are usually enabled if you select a folder or an email.
In the past, even if I highlighted an item in the inbox everything would zoom. Now it will only zoom when I'm in the email itself. This makes it very difficult for those of us who have vision problems. If there isn't a work around, I may have to go to another email client. Not every user has 20/20 vision.
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I tackle it by setting the minimum font size. Then you never have to zoom (at least for reading message text.)
I have never known zoom work on the user interface. In fact, users often complain that while they can zoom to see message text, they cannot zoom the menus and message lists.
The Theme Font & Size Changer add-on is the traditional solution for small text in the menus and message lists, but at present it is broken.
There are temporary fixes available, as listed here.
I wonder if you have been using a generalised accessibility aid that zooms the whole desktop?