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ronw

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#83086 10-May-2011 11:33

Is anyone else having problems with Firefox and Stuff website. the fonts are always too small to read and do not resolve nicely. You are forced to do the CTRL+ to get a reasonable sized font which also improves the resolution.
Unfortunately you cannot use the Firefox Options to permanently increase fonts because Stuff ignore the browser and force the small fonts on you.
its a real pain

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#467471 10-May-2011 11:41

No problems here, running the latest version of Firefox.

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#467515 10-May-2011 12:45

Looks fine to me in Firefox 4.

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#467516 10-May-2011 12:47

Firefox 4, IE8 and Chrome...all looks the same to me.

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#467572 10-May-2011 14:17

Quick look at their css shows 12px Arial is being used for most paragraphs of text. Perhaps post a screenshot of what issue you are seeing?

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#467590 10-May-2011 14:57

I am comparing standard Firefox4 and IE 9 and the fonts are much clearer and bigger in IE. I realise I can increase the font size manually but of course every time you go out of Stuff and come back you have to increase fonts again. Other sites are fine because I have increased the font size in Firefox options but for some reason Stuff ignores that setting.
I will have a play further. I note there is a lot of chatter on web from others with same problem but no one seems to have a fix for Windows. Linux is easy because you can increase the css file settings

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#3412053 6-Sep-2025 19:17

Recently Stuff have updated their sitewide fonts.
The sans serif font now used is "Stuff Sans"

For me in Chrome on openSUSE Tumbleweed the sans serif font looks awful.

in Firefox fonts look fine.
Default sans font in both Firefox and Chrome is Roboto (and system wide) - so why is it looking so bad in Chrome?

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#3412186 7-Sep-2025 15:36

not entirely sure but it appears to be something to do with Chrome 140.x.x
Installing chrome beta 141.x.x and the fonts appear normal.

Thought it might be something to do with my profile - so reset chrome and deleted my profile folder but the odd fonts still persist in 140.x.x