the checkbox “Allow pages to choose their own fonts and colors” exists in Firefox options. Firefox allows me to uncheck it, and i like seeing the world in Verdana… i do not see an obvious way to choose my own font (and enforce it) in Chrome.
also, the tabs at the top do not allow me to quickly resize the browser window by double-clicking the title bar… i guess i’ll have to change behaviours. lame.
also, we got ourselves a lolgrammur typo on page 15 of the comic that explains what Google Chrome is all about:
i mean, seriously:
3 September 2008 at 6:05 am
So…your image file on second grade grammar is named… grammer-1.jpg FAIL!
Cheers,
- Oli
P.S.: I second the “minimum font size” and the “see the world in Verdana” options for Google Chrome. I’ll dig into the source code tonight to see if the
C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Preferences file can have additional options added under webkit/webprefs:
“webkit”: {
“webprefs”: {
“default_fixed_font_size”: 12,
“default_font_size”: 14,
“fixed_font_family”: “Courier New”,
“sansserif_font_family”: “Verdana”,
“serif_font_family”: “Verdana”
}
}
I seem to remember Safari and/or Konqueror having similar options, although I tried both a while ago, so it might also be wishful thinking on my part.
3 September 2008 at 3:22 pm
the file name is ironic. if the file name was grammurLOLz0rz.JPEG, would you still give it an immediate FAIL?
:)
yay for open source!!
3 September 2008 at 8:35 pm
As promised, I took a look at the source code, but was only able to solve half the problem: http://oliiscool.blogspot.com/2008/09/world-in-verdana.html
The short version is you can use the hidden settings minimum_font_size and minimum_logical_font_size to make the text bigger, but the other half of the problem will take changes to the source code or some crazy scheme of overwriting Arial*.ttf with Verdana*.ttf!
23 January 2009 at 9:51 am
Chrome now has an option to change font and font size:
http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95416