Comments on: Call for Firefox Feature: Zoom to Screen Width

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:05:01 +0000

I just downloaded and tried Glazoom and it doesn’t work for me. Using “Zoom on element” just sort of zooms the whole page. It doesn’t do the fit-paragraph-to-screen-width that the iphone/ipad does. I would love to see this work, because I have very bad eyesight. I am running Firefox 3.6.20 on Windows 7 x64

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:40:38 +0000

This will be extremely useful, I have two monitors that I use everyday. In the morning when I’m working, I’ll use the 21″ monitors, with 1280×720 resolution, sitting on a computer chair close to the screen, maybe about 2 foot away from the screen. On the afternoon I’ll switch the monitors to my 40″ tv (1920×1080) to watch movie or net browsing, and seat on the sofa 10 foot away from the screen. (Both monitors are connected to the same computer.

It is always a pain switching zoom-in and zoom-out to make the text readable, on the small screen, 100% zoom is enough for all task, but on the big screen, I will need to zoom-in to 170% to make it readable.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:25:10 +0000

While it’s not necessarily the zoom feature, I came across this add-on called “Readability” https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/46442

It works better on individual article pages vs homepages.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:52:27 +0000

Also waiting for a solution similar to iPhone’s Safari column zoom functionality. ::subscribed to followup comments::

By: Will

Will — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:02:26 +0000

I too, googled for this add on and found this. I have been looking for a reason to teach myself how to write these. If anyone wants to work on it with me let me know

By: Mitchell

Mitchell — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:25:32 +0000

Excellent idea! I’m going to test out Glazoom, but am awaiting a more polished app. I’ve subscribed to comments so please post any developments here : )

By: Beau

Beau — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:51:44 +0000

It’d be nice to have specific options too.
Like the add-on could automatically zoom the page to fit horizontally once the page finishes loading and then from there you could zoom to the specific elements with a double or triple click.
Oh to dream…

By: Beau

Beau — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:49:37 +0000

Double clicking on web elements to zoom to them has become second nature to me now after several years of iPhone use.
I can’t imagine why anyone WOULDN’T want this feature (at least optionally as a quality add-on).
I find it’s FAR easier to concentrate on reading/understanding something when I can zoom-out everything else so to speak.
Additionally this would be PERFECT for HTPC users as a few have already pointed out. I’ll tell you from personal experience it’s pretty much impossible to properly read a webpage on a 42″ widescreen from six and a half feet away…

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:21:55 +0000

I will install and test Glazoom today. Thanks for the tip.

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:20:47 +0000

The “Glazoom” add-on for Firefox has a “zoom to element” feature. It’s very nice. I also use it for my t.v. browsing.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:57:27 +0000

Check out the NoSquint plugin for Firefox. There is a beta version on its home page that works with the lates version of Firefox.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:07:31 +0000

Opera has this feature. Firefox needs it. Hitting ctrl-+ on every new page is a nuisance.

By: Sam Greene

Sam Greene — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:37:27 +0000

Just googled for this and found your page – I would love this feature in a browser. As I browse on my TV, things can be hard to read. Being able to dynamically zoom in and out would be AMAZING.

By: Graf

Graf — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:29:12 +0000

I agree this is very badly needed. It’s the best feature of Safari on the iPhone platform and may be the best feature period.

Who wants to have junk along the gutters while you’re staring at a tiny little collumn of text in the middle of the screen? Especially with the proliferation of netbooks it’s a no-brainer.

(it baffles me that Apple has skipped including this feature in Safari, it’s the only thing that would make me consider leaving Firefox…)

Of course… if Firefox got there first I’d be happy too.

Anyway, I’m amazed and confused that there isn’t talk of wider adoption.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:28:14 +0000

Thanks!