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25 May 2011

My Cat Borked My Mefi, Help Completely idiotic question, but well, I am a complete idiot. Anyway, last night the cat jumped on the keyboard and now the blue - or, rather, the font on the blue - is very small. Tiny. Unreadable. Gray & green, however, are fine. What did she do? How do I undo it? HALP!!

post by: mygothlaundry at: 08:16 | 8 comments

What kind of computer do you have? I know on my mac if i hit command and the - sign at the same time it bumps the font size down. To reverse it, you hit command and the = (same key as +, but you don't have to hit the shift key) at the same time. As many times as you need to get it normal again.

posted by Stewriffic 25 May | 08:20

And I have it from a good source that control + on windows will make your font size big again.

posted by Stewriffic 25 May | 08:24

Yes, Ctrl + and Ctrl - control font size on my PC.

posted by amro 25 May | 08:27

I'm on a Mac running Windows (yes, I KNOW) and can confirm that Ctrl + (on the number pad, or Ctrl = as Stewie says) makes the font size bigger, and Ctrl - makes it smaller.

I don't understand why it would only have affected one page, though, as when I smallen or biggen the text it appears to affect everything I subsequently open in that browser.

posted by altolinguistic 25 May | 08:27

Ctrl-0 should reset the size to the default, on firefox.

posted by DarkForest 25 May | 08:45

Thanks DarkForest, you are a genius! Ctrl-0 did the trick, I can read Metafilter again. Weird firefox quirks - it was only the one page that I was on when she jumped on the keyboard, nothing else, not even the other browser tabs.

See the Evil One!
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posted by mygothlaundry 25 May | 09:01

Look at those blue eyes! How could anything with eyes like that ever do anything bad?

posted by altolinguistic 25 May | 10:05

The question now becomes...which post did she not want you to see, and why???

posted by JoanArkham 25 May | 10:30

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