Firefox 3 Beta1 and zooming - Part 2

Yesterday I wrote about the full-page-zooming feature of Firefox 3 Beta 1. While this is a great new feature text-only-zooming should still be possible for reasons I explained yesterday.

Today I found a way to use text-only-zooming with Firefox 3 Beta 1. It is even possible to combine page-zooming and text-zooming and let Firefox remember both settings combined.

In order to use text-only-zooming you have to install the Firefox extension NoSquint which let you zoom text-only and can save your text-zooming settings. It is also possible to zoom text on all webpages to a fixed zooming level. This works independently from the page-zooming settings and you can use both at once.

One problem with installing NoSquint is that it is not available for Firefox 3 yet. Fortunately you can install the version for Forefox 2 the way I described here.

Since this extension is not build for Firefox 3 there are some smaller problems. You can not use ctrl++ or ctrl+- for text zooming. Also the sidebar is not available. The only way for zooming is to use the settings menu.