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Dialog box size problem

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I have visual problems that require me to have the font set larger for dialog boxes etc. Because of this, I can't see the full dialog box for setting the font colors and there's no way to expand it. Is there a setting in about:config that would help?

I have visual problems that require me to have the font set larger for dialog boxes etc. Because of this, I can't see the full dialog box for setting the font colors and there's no way to expand it. Is there a setting in about:config that would help?
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How are you increasing the font size?

Add code to the userChrome.css file below the default @namespace line or use Stylish. Adjust the value (50em) to suit your needs.


@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* only needed once */

#ColorsDialog { width: 50em !important; }

  • create the chrome folder (lowercase) in the <xxxxxxxx>.default profile folder if this folder doesn't exist
  • use a plain text editor like Notepad to create a (new) userChrome.css file in the chrome folder (file name is case sensitive)
  • paste the code in the userChrome.css file in the editor window
  • make sure that the userChrome.css file starts with the default @namespace line
  • make sure that you select "All files" and not "Text files" when you save the file via "Save file as" in the text editor as userChrome.css.
    otherwise Windows may add a hidden .txt file extension and you end up with a not working userChrome.css.txt file
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I added #ColorsDialog { width: 50em !important; } to my userChrome.css file and kept increasing it, up to 800em (!), closing & opening FF each time, but the colors dialog box is unchanged.

My basic font size on dialog boxes, toolbars etc. is set with Windows color, advanced appearance settings. (Windows 7)

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My mistake, sorry about the confusion.

I sometimes forget that code for these about pages needs to be in userContent.css and not in userChrome.css.

Tested it this time.

Add code to the userContent.css file.


@-moz-document url-prefix(about:preferences#content){
 #dialogBox { width: 50em !important; }
}
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Works like a charm! Thanks as always for your help, cor-el! Now that I can see the whole thing, I find it doesn't do what I want it to do - namely, to change ONLY the color of text to black without changing the color of links, background, etc. Any way to do this?

Modified by cfcentaurea