So, who knows about this IE feature ?

eirman

On about half the websites you visit you can change the text size by holding down the Ctrl key and rolling the mouse wheel. It won't work here, but it seems to work on the majority of sites - eg >> www.enn.ie

Orion

It's not just in IE - works in FF too.

WizZard

Yes.

quazzy

Macros42 wrote:

It's not just in IE - works in FF too.

Or you can press Ctrl and + OR -
For Firefox

beans

Macros42 wrote:

It's not just in IE - works in FF too.

And Opera!

unkel

eirman wrote:

It won't work here

It does work here if you use FF or Opera. It doesn't if you use IE

Fighting Irish

eirman wrote:

On about half the websites you visit you can change the text size by holding down the Ctrl key and rolling the mouse wheel. It won't work here, but it seems to work on the majority of sites - eg >> www.enn.ie

did you know that you can search for words :eek: ctrl+f :eek:

Balfa

Opera pwns for resizing webpages. It resizes everything, not just the text. And you can have it fit any page to the width of the window, and automatically have it render in small mode (looks kinda like browsing on a mobile phone) if the window size is very small.

Opera's the boss.

aidan_walsh

Balfa wrote:

Opera pwns for resizing webpages. It resizes everything, not just the text. And you can have it fit any page to the width of the window, and automatically have it render in small mode (looks kinda like browsing on a mobile phone) if the window size is very small.

Opera's the boss.

For resizing.

bbbbb

works in microsoft office also (word, excel, powerpoint)

Mutant_Fruit

found out about it accidently one day in IE (ages ago) then i tried it in FF when i switched over, and it worked there too. I was happy bunny.

unkel

Balfa wrote:

Opera's the boss.

Hallelujah

Capt'n Midnight

Fighting Irish wrote:

did you know that you can search for words :eek: ctrl+f :eek:

In FireFox you can also use the key '/'
or Tools / Options / Advanced / Begin finding.. so it starts searching as soon as you type - no need for Ctrl-F

Re wheel mouse + Ctrl.
Sounds like yet another Microsoft Innovation that was already used by others.

aidan_walsh

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Sounds like yet another Microsoft Innovation that was already used by others.

If by feature you mean a guideline that has been in the Microsoft UX guide since around Windows 95, then yes...

peckerhead

eirman wrote:

It won't work here, but it seems to work on the majority of sites

Actually, it does work here, but only on the sig texts...

Heathen

ahhhh haaaaaa!!!!!!!

thanks for that!!!!!
it all makes sence now.. it was happening to me a lot.. but i thought it was my IE was broke.. turns out i just have fat fingers!!

cheers for clearing that up for me

Capt'n Midnight

aidan_walsh wrote:

If by feature you mean a guideline that has been in the Microsoft UX guide since around Windows 95, then yes...

tidied up post , was referring to wheel mouse

minirant why do they keep changing the user interface and especially the names and shortcut keys seems like every second version of windows you have to learn off a new set of shortcuts /minirant

zilog_jones

There's a much more useful feature of IE:

Alt+F4

^_^

Oriel

Did you know pressing Alt-F4 uncovers a class easter eeg in IE?

/edit - damn me for taking a phone call in the middle of a post