How do i enlarge the overall font size on my new macbook pro

How do i enlarge the overall font size on my new macbook pro

mahkah1 wrote:
How do i enlarge the overall font size on my new macbook pro
Only by dropping the resolution in the System Preferences which has limited results.
With Safari there isn't a whole lot of choices, just a increase in the text on web pages which doesn't hold and tends to distort pages.
A better option for surfing is Firefox and the Add-ons: NoSquint and Theme Font & Size Changer.
NoSquint puts two zoom in/out buttons on the toolbar, you can set a global whole web page increase (not just type) and best of all it remembers that zoom setting for that site forever (unless you clear it out)
Now the other Add-on: Theme Font & Size Changer, allows you to increase the font size of Firefox itself, so the text buttons, google search bar and URL bar is all at a increased font size, making it easier to read.
On my 17" I got Firefox font size set at a 24 pt and web pages globally set of a defualt zoom of 170%, which appears to me to be twice the size of the type in OS X.
I also have a deep blue Firefox "persona" that colors the toolbar area, with white type the contrast makes it easier to read for me as well.

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