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My notification drop down isn't readable. This only happened after upgrading Firefox so don't think it's a Facebook issue. Any help would be great.
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The text seems too large for the space allowed.
Is it possible that you made a change to Firefox's font or zoom settings, or installed an add-on which modifies text sizes? The two settings I can think of that might cause text to exceed the allowed space are:
(1) Setting a large "minimum" font size on the Options page.
The problem with that setting is that it's not proportional: it enlarges the text but not the space occupied by the text. To clear that:
- Windows: "3-bar" menu button (or Tools menu) > Options
- Mac: "3-bar" menu button (or Firefox menu) > Preferences
- Linux: "3-bar" menu button (or Edit menu) > Preferences
- Any system: type or paste about:preferences into the address bar and press Enter/Return to load it
Firefox 56-59: In the Language & Appearance section, click the "Advanced" button.
Firefox 38-55: In the left column, click Content. Then on the right side, click the "Advanced" button.
In the Fonts dialog, make sure Minimum font size is no larger than 9, maybe 10. You might need to set this under multiple characters sets but for Facebook, most likely under "Latin".
Any difference?
(2) Switching to "Text Only" zoom.
Normally, Firefox uses "Full Zoom" which is proportional and scales the whole layout, text, and images. To check on that:
Click the View menu on the menu bar, then Zoom, then if Zoom Text Only has a checkmark, click it to turn that off.
If you haven't turned on the menu bar, you can activate it temporarily by tapping the Alt key or F10 function key.
Any improvement so far?
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Chosen Solution
The text seems too large for the space allowed.
Is it possible that you made a change to Firefox's font or zoom settings, or installed an add-on which modifies text sizes? The two settings I can think of that might cause text to exceed the allowed space are:
(1) Setting a large "minimum" font size on the Options page.
The problem with that setting is that it's not proportional: it enlarges the text but not the space occupied by the text. To clear that:
- Windows: "3-bar" menu button (or Tools menu) > Options
- Mac: "3-bar" menu button (or Firefox menu) > Preferences
- Linux: "3-bar" menu button (or Edit menu) > Preferences
- Any system: type or paste about:preferences into the address bar and press Enter/Return to load it
Firefox 56-59: In the Language & Appearance section, click the "Advanced" button.
Firefox 38-55: In the left column, click Content. Then on the right side, click the "Advanced" button.
In the Fonts dialog, make sure Minimum font size is no larger than 9, maybe 10. You might need to set this under multiple characters sets but for Facebook, most likely under "Latin".
Any difference?
(2) Switching to "Text Only" zoom.
Normally, Firefox uses "Full Zoom" which is proportional and scales the whole layout, text, and images. To check on that:
Click the View menu on the menu bar, then Zoom, then if Zoom Text Only has a checkmark, click it to turn that off.
If you haven't turned on the menu bar, you can activate it temporarily by tapping the Alt key or F10 function key.
Any improvement so far?
jscher2000, Spot on, I had minimum for size as 18, it works fine up to 13 and is very readable. It's small though, was easy to read before but as you say the box wasn't resizing so the text was squashed. Am I right in thinking it will resize the box with another setting?
Firefox is really engineered around using zoom rather than tweaking individual font size. Is there enough left and right margin to still see things if you zoom in a bit? If you hold down the Ctrl key and tap the + key once or twice (or - if twice is too much), can you find a good level?
That's what I've done, I'm now a zoomer?