Default websiste size in Safari

Is there a way to default the website size. Every time I use Safari, I have to hit the Command plus the + keys to enlarge the size of the website on the screen. I don't mean changing the size of the window itself, but the size of the website in the window. On IE, I can just tell it to go to some size and it will do that for every site and when reopening. In Safari on my Mac, I am constantly resizing. I can find the text size minimum in the preferences but that doesn't change the website size.

Hi,
Unfortunately, Safari will revert to default once you close the application.
A work around that might work for you is full screen mode.
Download and install Glims here.
http://www.machangout.com/
It's free and offers other great features as well. It's compatible with Snow Leopard and Safari 5.
Something else that may help is trying Zoom in System Preferences / Universal Access.
Carolyn

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Hi,
Unfortunately, Safari will revert to default once you close the application.
A work around that might work for you is full screen mode.
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http://www.machangout.com/
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mrurmil --
You can go into the main Safari Menu, (upper left of top Menu)
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See if one of these pages can help.
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Why is it when I set my fonts inside Safari to say, 18 for standard and 18 for fixed. It doesn't display that way. I keep getting the tiny font that I've always used.

The font size you specify in the Preferences (18 for standard) will be used only if the font size is not specified by the web page. Nowadays most of webpages (including this Discussions) specify fonts and sizes to use in the CSS file, and the setting in the Preferences will be ignored.
As andyBall writes, you can set the minimum size of fonts in Safari-Preferences-Advanced. But the results may not satisfy you (wrong line spacings etc.).
In the same Preferences, you can specify your own CSS file, as explained in the following post by Tom Gewecke:
Re: Setting default font size doesn't stick
But here again, line spacings etc. are not adjusted correctly. To write a detailed personal CSS file by yourself is very tedious, if not impossible.
As you might know, you can enlarge the fonts (and spacings) by hitting "command +" (press-hold the command key and hit the + key, or the = key; it seems you need not to press the shift key). I will be very pleased if someone tells me how to make this "enlarged" state the default.
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Is it possible to set a default window size when launching Safari and/or opening new windows in Safari?

That is how I thought it worked.
Please allow me to further expand on the issue I'm having and perhaps you can shed some light on that.
I resize the Safari window to the size I would like to be however when I open a radio streaming site I frequently use, which is a smaller window size by its default, it resets my window size and the next time I launch Safari and open a new window the window is the smaller default size not the size I set for it. The obvious solution would be to use a different web browser for the streaming site. I take it there is no way to set Safari to open a window at a certain size to prevent this from happening?

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If you like to set a default zoom level for safari so you don't have to hit Ctrl+ (or Ctrl-) every time you start Safari and open a new tab, here's how you can do that. This should work on Safari for mac, too:
1) create a file named defaultzoom.css (or any name you like, just make sure it has a css extension.)
2) copy and paste in the following:
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3) in safari, go to Preferences > Advanced. Under style sheet, select Other... and point to the file you created.
4) you may need to restart safari for the change to take effect.
Voila. Hope that helps someone.

Yes you are right!
This CSS zooming is a crude hack. I think it basically treats a web page like a pdf document where you just enlarges everything.
When you zoom manually, safari does a smarter sort of zoom where it enlarges but tries to keep widths of the elements the same size, reflowing text where needed and scrolling only when necessary.
If the web page has a fixed size that is smaller than your browser window, like this forum, css zoom works ok. But with a page like gmail, which has no width constraint, you get into trouble.
Hmm, wait, I just checked out wiki, which also uses up all available screen real estate, but does NOT have this problem.
Notice in gmail, even if you zoom way out below what should be 100%, the login is still off the screen. The font gets real small but the width of the page stays the same. The css zoom basically "sticks" and isn't completely reversible.
Bottom line: you have to decide which is more annoying: having to hit Ctrl+ for every tab you open, or running into some problematic pages.
On Windows, I use autohotkey (a kdb and mouse macro scripting program) to switch off the CSS on the fly when I need to. I think Mac has similar capability built in, right? If I were really clever, I guess I could program autohotkey to send a few ctrl+ whenever it detects a new window or tab in safari, but I'm not there yet.
Bottom bottom line: Apple needs to add this feature. It's a pretty basic accessibility feature. Doesn't Apple have like an accessibility guru/advocate?

"enlarge default font size"

Between early cataracts and not being able to get computer glasses made right. I am tryingn to figure out how to enlarge the default font size for text in all (most?) of Safari. When I click on the "make the font larger" feaure [A/A], it makes headlines scream and doesn't do all that much for reading.
If I am finding the correct place at which one would normall deal with it, the alternatives that seem to work best for me have disappeared. I believe I had set it manually set to 15, but once I tried to change it, it would only go back to up to 14 and then 18, which is too big. It would be great if someone could help me with this. Thanks.
I'm using Mountain Lion 10.8.4 and am almost sorry I upgraded.

Ronald P. Regensburg wrote at MacInTouch:
These Terminal commands allow you to change the fonts and sizes in Safari 6 in Mountain Lion. You might have to empty caches (enable Develop menu in Safari 6) to see the result and remove the css setting (to "nothing selected"). Font names with spaces need to be between quotation marks. Change yours accordingly.
Full example for proportional font:
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2StandardFontFamily 'Lucida Grande'
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2DefaultFontSize 14
Full example for fixed width font:
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2FixedFontFamily Monaco
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2DefaultFixedFontSize 11
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defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2StandardFontFamily Times
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2DefaultFontSize 14
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2FixedFontFamily Courier
defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2DefaultFixedFontSize 14

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This may be a stupid question to ask in the developer forum but i cant really solve it.
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Shortly, this is "discussions" and is quite different in approach than the SE model, where everythign is aimed towards getting the be answers UP and removing all the nonsense.
I wish that Apple would invest more in discussion, and going towards making this more practical.

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You would be surprised to find out that is not like this, to get your account blocked you really need to do a lot of damage and posts are not removed unless they are illegal, and *always* it needs more than a person to delete something. That's a site managed by the community, not by some people put in place by a company.
It is always acceptable to link to external resources as long these resources do provide additional usefull information. Clearly the thread on that side contained much more information than the one here. I observed people linking from there to this forum, but it's not so common, and that's not due to the policy, just because here is more chat and less usefull information.... you will not see endless threads of replies on with "yes, I have the same problem" there.
Shortly, this is "discussions" and is quite different in approach than the SE model, where everythign is aimed towards getting the be answers UP and removing all the nonsense.
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