==> Is there any way to increase the font size for T-bird? Background: I tried to answer this question myself, before asking you folks. Namely... I opened T-bird's Settings>General>Language & Appearance>Fonts & Colors. At that location, I reset font FROM Default size 21 TO Default size 48. NO joy. I then reset font FROM Default size 48 to Garuda size 48. Again, NO joy. By "NO joy," I mean that both of the 2 changes that I tried made NO difference in the size of fonts on T-bitd's "mail" page (the T-bird page that lists -- for each of my mail accounts -- inbox, draft, sent, etc.) NOTE: After I changed fonts from Default size 21 to Garuda size 48, I could find NO click spot to "Apply" those changes. Therefore, I *assume* that T-bird activates those changes automatically -- or does it? ==> Any & all suggestions for increasing T-bird's font size will be VERY much appreciated.
The changes that you made are for messages, not the TBird UI. To change what you want you just have to use this code in the userChrome.css file: /* Global UI font */ * { font-size: 11pt !important; font-family: Segoe UI !important; } These are my settings. Adjust to fit your needs.
What version of Thunderbird are you using? I ask because with the new 115.xxx there's a new setting for font size. Top right corner/hamburger menu icon/font size.
Yes Joxx, that is an easier way to do it. I use so much css code that I just do it in there with all my other changes.
pt is outdated and printer related, even px is an absolute value. better: em/rem for a relative height to base value https://stackoverflow.com/questions/609517/why-em-instead-of-px https://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/units.en.html
THAT took care of my font-size problem. Many thanks Joxx!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As for making changes to CSS files, this is new territory for me. I shall seek to learn more about such files as time permits. Thanks for opening up something new for me to study!
Very interesting. I tried using px and em in place of pt for Global UI Font and they do not work. I do have em for line height code and px for some other code. I have just used the code that I have found from different places.
Glad you got it solved. If you need any help with css code for Thunderbird 115 or 120beta, which I am using, just ask.
if not familiar with css it need some time. in fact mozilla has the almanac of css https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference if you search for something special in your search engine, then always add "MDN" (MDN = mozilla developer network) will lead to most times to pages as above myself uses css for firefox, but much more for pages, very little for thunderbird. i always try the (built-in) developer tools (ctrl+shift+alt+i) first for fx/tb, for pages "examine..."
