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Facebook font size modify: Download free fix for small text
By Richi Jennings. November v, 2010.
Facebook has angered users with a change to the size of its font. The new small-scale text has people asking, "Who moved my cheese?" But yous can at least download a free set. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers also try hit ctrl-plus.
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Sharon Gaudin squints at her wall:
The type now is much smaller and users are lament that information technology's hard to read. ... Facebook said the small font size is something of an experiment ... [merely] did not say whether Facebook would change the type dorsum to a larger font based on negative user response.
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While most people see the smaller type size, some do not.
Leena Rao leans into the row:
Information technology looks like the change is meaning enough that it drew user attention as before long as the font was tweaked.
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Many members took to Twitter to vent well-nigh the smaller font, complaining that the new size is hard to read. ... The majority of Tweets ... seem to exist negative so Facebook may not be keeping the new, smaller font for long.
Dave Parrack channels Lincoln (or was information technology Nixon?):
You lot can't please all of the people all of the time. Facebook, on the other manus, doesn't seem to exist able to please anyone ever, especially when information technology starts irresolute things. ... The uproar may well lead the visitor to reverting ... or confront a never-ending storm of abuse from people with bad eyesight.
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It seems a picayune petty to mutter well-nigh such a trifling affair when Facebook is guilty of so much worse. ... [But] maybe ... this is an attempt to deflect from a much bigger problem. ... Surely even Facebook isn't capable of such deviousness, is it?
Arnab Nandi offers a solution:
As a heavy user, this has been causing me a lot of eye strain. And then I decided to create a quick script to set this. You lot tin can either:
Install it as a Chrome Extension or Firefox Greasemonkey Script ...
OR Elevate this Ready Facebook link to your bookmarks bar, and click information technology every fourth dimension you visit Facebook.
Oliver Chiang has a simpler alternative:
The man behind the script is ... a PhD candidate in computer science at the University of Michigan. ... I've simply tested it on my Chrome browser and it works similar a charm.
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At to the lowest degree for most browsers, you tin apply the browser itself to increase the font size of a page. All the same, this tends to increment the size of ... everything else on the page besides.
Meanwhile, MG Siegler laughs and laughs and laughs:
This is pretty hilarious. I mean, how does Facebook not realize at this signal that people are going to throw an absolutely ****-fit no matter what they change?
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The price of success is that you're basically not immune to change annihilation.
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