How to set the Default Zoom Level?
I have a Dell XPS 13 with a 13" diagonal 4K (3840x2160) display. On every single email I have to hit Ctrl-++ at least three times to get the email large enough to read - EVERY SINGLE EMAIL!!!! I don't have this issue with other applications, as the screen settings I have were configured to make all other applications comfortable to view without having to make continuous changes.
I saw a post early last year that was archived complaining about the same thing, and the only useful suggestion made was to change the zoom steps to fewer with larger spacing. This is not a solution to the requirement to have to resize every single email!!!! Yes, it does take it from three clicks to maybe one, but it is still every single email!
When will a setting be provided to allow the default zoom level to be set to something other than "1"? This is not rocket science, and clearly several people have bothered to post that they have to deal with this very annoying UI "feature".
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have you tried changing font size?
Yes, despite the previous artlcle making it clear that changing font size does not solve the issue that a simple default zoom level would solve. I have tried all sorts of font sizes, and currently have the "Minimum font size" set at 64, and see absolutely no change in the appearance of emails. Even tried under Composition setting HTML Stype Font to Extra Large. Again no change. I have attached two images. One is full screen at default zoom, and the next one is after 5 CTRL++ presses, and I finally can read the text on the images!
Perhaps you can explain how changing font size will also change image size like zoom does?
Sarcasm doesn't help. And, yes, we do get questions on viewing mail where font size was the issue. And your post only mentioned reading, not viewing images.
I don't know about you, but about 99% of my emails are HTML, so when I open an email to read it, that means 99% of the time, changing a font size does nothing. I am well aware that changing the font size will make text I enter when I create a new message bigger, but that is not the issue. Opening the emails I get and being able to view them without having to resize them every single time is the issue. Others have complained about this a year ago, and apparently no one seems to understand the issue since the "just change font size" response is still the only provided recommendation.
I have this exact same problem, too. After successfully flailing around with some configuration settings in Config Editor (follow the thread at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1497617) and accomplishing some partial resolution, I still have exactly the same message-body text-size problem described here, even after trying the same "solutions" proposed here (and others).
It may be that there is some bug in all this (over-?)elaborate code, and it may also be that generating a Default Zoom Level setting (with adjustment more and less) would be a generally useful UI improvement for everyone, especially for those of us with less-than-perfect eyesight.
OR, maybe there is some other, already-existing, configuration parameter that could be adjusted to accomplish that same end, but the existing list of hundreds (or maybe thousands?) is too complicated and obscure for even medium-skilled users to work through. Perhaps someone who is intimately familiar with the code could identify that parameter, and perhaps whoever designates new improvements could define a Default Zoom Level new-feature task.
Maybe that task would be part of a general integrated user-interface redesign, since the present system is so broken up into several parts scattered hither and yon in the settings, and separately addresses different parts of message and home windows.
Is there same straightforward way that I can escalate this conversation into a Feature Request or a Bug Report?
PS. I note that a Default Zoom Level setting should also work on the text size when writing messages, too. On my setup, the composition text size and the reading text size are the same, and both should be adjustably larger for optimum user ease.