Comments on: Use Zoom to View Websites Easier on Smaller Screened PCs

By: Essential Netbook Utilities (Penny gadget) for Mini-Notebooks

Essential Netbook Utilities (Penny gadget) for Mini-Notebooks — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:05:22 +0000

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By: Miles M.

Miles M. — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:19:15 +0000

The “CTRL +” or “CTRL -” keyboard combo also works in Chrome.

By: cr0ft

cr0ft — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:21:08 +0000

As always, Opera leads the pack, no different with this feature. ;)

ctrl-scrollbutton up/down on the mouse will zoom very quickly and easily. ctrl-click on the scrollbutton will reset you to 100% zoom.

Opera does zooming and small screen rendering better than any other browser out there easily. If zooming a page is important to you then Opera is the browser to use.

By: Kip

Kip — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:53:27 +0000

No Squint for Firefox is an excellent add-on
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2592

By: MleB

MleB — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:36:40 +0000

The page scaling abilities of Firefox 3.x.x was the primary attraction to me when I considered upgrading the otherwise ‘locked in’ FF 2.x.x. on my Linux EeePC 4G, with its 7″ screen.

There were some horror stories getting it installed in the Asus, but a member at eeeuser came up with a script that works wonders to get 3.0.1 onboard the Asus OS, at which point you can then get to 3.0.5. Its here –

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=41815

Meanwhile, the scaling helps a great deal and is, as noted above, its dead easy to do and FF remembers the setting. FF 3.0.1′s default settings of the ‘Awesome Bar’ were a pain in the butt on a small screen, but that’s been dealt with with later versions.