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NoSquint
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What is it?
Are you always changing the text zoom level when you open a new browser window? Do you find some sites you visit have impossibly small fonts and you are constantly changing your text zoom back and forth as you visit different sites?
NoSquint is a Firefox extension that allows you to adjust the default text zoom level, which is very useful if you have a small display or run at a very high resolution. NoSquint also optionally remembers the zoom level per site. Until website designers (typically those who know of no life outside Internet Explorer) who insist on using font-size: 50% are administered a harsh LARTing, NoSquint exists to make web browsing tolerable in Firefox.
You can view the Online Help to get a sense of the features NoSquint supports.
Where can I get it?
Download NoSquint
1.0.1 for Firefox 2 (29 KB)
All Versions
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Firefox Compatibility |
Release Notes |
| 1.93.2.1
beta
beta
| Firefox 3b4+ only |
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- Exclusive support for Firefox 3 (now includes RC1). Firefox 2 is not supported in this release.
- Support for both Firefox 2's text zoom (text only) and Firefox 3's new full zoom (both text and images). Both text and full page zoom levels are remembered individually per site.
- Ability to specify the primary zoom method to either text or full zoom; if you want to restore Firefox 2's zoom behavior, set the primary zoom method to Text Zoom.
- Secondary zoom method can be used by pressing shift while using the usual shortcuts (ctrl+plus/minus/0, ctrl+mousewheel, toolbar buttons)
- Removed site name from NoSquint statusbar panel
- New statusbar panel tooltip that shows current zoom levels and site name
- Left-click on statusbar panel now pops up a dialog to configure site-specific settings
- New right-click context menu for quick adjustments and access to global settings
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| 1.0.1 |
Firefox 2 only |
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- Dropped support for Firefox 1.5. Sorry. If you use Firefox 1.5, download version 0.9.1.1 below.
- Significantly improved default behaviour; now has a comprehensive list of two-level TLDs (such as co.uk, on.ca, etc.)
- Integrated, detailed help.
- Fixed conflict with Tab Mix Plus (and presumably other extensions as well).
- Do not force ctrl-mousewheel to perform text zoom if the user has disabled that elsewhere.
- Fixed bug where text zoom was not being applied to reloads of pages containing frames or iframes.
- Optional status bar indication of text zoom level and current site name (enabled by default).
- Toolbar buttons for decreasing and increasing text size.
- Ability to define exceptions to control the way NoSquint determines individual sites.
- Option to forget zoom settings for rarely visited sites.
- Other miscellaneous minor bug fixes, and behavioural and performance improvements.
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| 0.9.1.1 |
Firefox 1.5 and 2 |
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- Support for Firefox 2.0
- Custom extension icon
- Apply default text zoom to file:// URLs
- Fixed bug where startup page would sometimes not get zoomed.
- Pages using frames should now be properly zoomed (might not be fully fixed)
- Per-domain zoom feature now recognizes UK second-level domains such as co.uk, ac.uk, etc.
- Ability to override zoom increment
- Can now specify zoom level for the current domain in the settings dialog
- New help text in the settings dialog to address common questions
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You can also download NoSquint from Mozilla Add-Ons.
Who do I harrass about bugs?
Please send feedback or bug reports to tack@urandom.ca. My thanks to those who have emailed comments and suggestions.
If you find NoSquint useful to the point that you'd like to part with your hard earned money, please don't give any to me. The EFF needs your money far more than I do; please consider making a donation to this very worthy cause.
The nonsense written above can be blamed on Jason Tackaberry (
tack@urandom.ca).
