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    Version 20/21 Increase tab text font size

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    • browzer1
      browzer1 last edited by

      Just stumbled on this.

      To increase the tab text font size (in Win7), go to Personalize, select Message Box and increase the text size to whatever you like.

      I've almost got Version 21 to be perfect using various addons.

      Maybe Leushino was right!

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      • browzer1
        browzer1 last edited by

        By the way, Personalize is a Windows function, not Opera.

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        • lem729
          lem729 last edited by

          I couldn't find, what you called "Message Box" in the Personalize feature. I have Windows 7. All I could do was adjust the display. Now that didn't seem to affect the size of the font of the print items in the Opera menu -- New Tab, New Window, Speed Dial, Stash, Discover, etc. -- (which some have complained about in the forum) or the size of the font of the print on the tabs (we've had similar complaints there). Now it did help in other areas, but the display setting in Windows is an across the board setting. If one is happy with places other than Opera, in the Opera menu there is a Zoom feature, which does the same, but specifically is limited to Opera. Now the Zoom feature does not help on the size of the font of the items in the Opera menu or on the tabs. If I've missed where "Message Box" is, and you can change the size of the font of items in the Opera menu or on the tabs, please redirect me to how to do it.

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          • samkook
            samkook last edited by

            Right-click desktop->Personalize->Window Color(at the bottom, next to Desktop background) and then change the "Item:" dropdown to "Message Box".

            It will change it for every message box Windows 7 display though.

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            • lem729
              lem729 last edited by

              @browzer1

              Good find. Thanks for mentioning this. You're right. One can tweak things to near perfection here 🙂 You can adjust, not just Message Box, but also Menu. A number of forum users could not read the menu.

              Thanks, samkook, on helping me find Message Box. I think this is very good. You right click -- Personalize. Then click Windows Color at the bottom. Then click Advanced Appearance Settings. In the drop-down menu, I adjusted message box, to a font size of 10 instead of 9 (tried 11 first) (it was too big for me), and this seems to affect the font size on my tabs and also for the folders on my bookmarks toolbar. Then I adjusted "Menu" and changed it from 9 to 10. (First I tried 11). This changed the size of the Opera menu, and made it better for me. I think the right click context menu is changed by this. Still, it's great for people who need accessibility. It's necessary to click apply, and save in a number of places, or you lose the change.It is a Windows wide change, but if it's good in Opera, it may be okay elsewhere for the user.

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              • samkook
                samkook last edited by

                I just got why he tried to make the font bigger, I just updated to v21 and immediately regretted it since I can barely read the tabs, menu and context menu on my HTPC anymore.
                Thanks for finding a fix, I don't know what they were thinking.

                Edit: But I think I'm gonna go back to v20 since the only reason I updated was to show the full address bar, but there's still no way to make it all black and actually readable.

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                • lem729
                  lem729 last edited by

                  As I get older -- 🙂 I need a little aid in reading the menus. Opera needs to hire @browzer1

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                  • samkook
                    samkook last edited by

                    For me, it's the 10 feet separating me from my 32 inch TV that make things hard.

                    Being able to set the default zoom to 150% is a great feature to have, but it's not as good when you make everything else smaller with no way to change things from inside the software.

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                    • lem729
                      lem729 last edited by

                      Wait, I haven't fiddled with the zoom. (Though it's nice to have the feature) (Generally, I just use 0 to increase size of text, and 9 to decrease it).

                      It was the editing of the "Message box" and the "Menu" that seemed to do the trick for me. I just added (from 9 to 10 on font size in both). It didn't kill anything else in the rest of windows (maybe made it better there too). For some reason, I don't remember my menus changing that much with Opera 20 to 21. Maybe if it changed a lot, it was a "bug." Or I was sleeping when I installed in, and just can't remember now. But I am happy with browser1's idea. On the personalize and display front in Windows, you can also adjust the size of text. But that's Windows-wide, so is only good for Opera, if you don't hurt the rest of Windows. I didn't adjust that, as I can still (with my mid-range glasses) 🙂 read the text in the computer okay.

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                      • samkook
                        samkook last edited by

                        The zoom(and font size option I think) is only for the webpages, not opera's UI. I went from 20.0.1387.91 to 21.0.1432.57 and the size from the context menu and the main menu got about twice as small. The tabs weren't that bad, but still too small. Maybe the change was less sudden since I may have skipped a few updates since I've had it disabled for a few weeks.

                        I couldn't justify making everything in windows bigger so going back to v20 seemed like a better idea for me.

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                        • A Former User
                          A Former User last edited by

                          Try enabling the experimental HiDPI Support in opera:flags

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                          • samkook
                            samkook last edited by

                            After seeing the side effects from that other thread, I'm not sure why someone would want to.

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                            • lem729
                              lem729 last edited by admin

                              I know he had problems but that was when he enabled the feature. Surely, he could disable it, without browser-Frankenstein runing amuck? Someone once said: "when the going gets tough, the tough get going!" AND can't you always return to Opera 20? In any event, I'm not doing it myself. But then again, I don't have a problem with the menus being too small.

                              One person did have success. https://forums.opera.com/topic/2595/menu-text-size-in-opera-21/2
                              Someone else, I recall had a bar showing up when he enabled. But I can't find that thread.

                              Perhaps we need to hear more from rafaelluik to see if I've mistated your seeming :)))) safety.

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                              • samkook
                                samkook last edited by admin

                                This is the thread with the guy who had that black bar show up: https://forums.opera.com/topic/2608/opera-pages-and-interface-too-small-in-high-resolution/3

                                I assume disabling it would return to normal, but you never know for sure with experimental features.

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                                • lem729
                                  lem729 last edited by

                                  I'm not quite sure how you go back to Opera 20 either. I looked at c:\program files (x86)\Opera, and I no longer see an Opera 20 file or folder there.

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                                  • lem729
                                    lem729 last edited by

                                    Here it is -- version 20.

                                    ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/

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                                    • leocg
                                      leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                                      I'm not quite sure how you go back to Opera 20 either

                                      To go back to a previous version/build just delete the folder with the newest one. Don't forget to close Opera first.

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                                      • casaet
                                        casaet last edited by

                                        I have just installed Opera 21, and the only thing I am not satisfied with is the font size. Will going back to 20 increase the font size significantly? I went from an older version to 21, so I have not tried 20.
                                        Of course the developpers should fix this as soon as possible. The solutions mentioned in this thread is not possible in my version of Win 7.

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                                        • lem729
                                          lem729 last edited by

                                          @casenet

                                          You mean you can't adjust the Display, or "Message Box," or "Menu" in your Windows 7, through the personalize feature? I thought it was available in all versions of Windows 7. I'm assuming on font size you're not comfortable changing the font in Opera through the Zoom feature in the Opera menu, or, if you have your advanced keyboard activated, pressing from the keyboard 0 to make font larger, or a 9 to make it smaller. (Without the advanced keyboard function set, I believe the shortcut for making fonts larger is + and smaller -

                                          Some people have said that the size of fonts/menus, etc. changed from Opera 20 to 21, but I don't think everyone experienced that. I did post in this thread a link to Opera 20 in case you want to uninstall what you have and try that.

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                                          • casaet
                                            casaet last edited by

                                            Thanks for answer Lem. Readability and and font size are very good in Opera 21, except for bookmarks and menus. I am an experienced user of both windows and linux, and if there is something I cannot do, it is either impossible, or for very advanced users. In this case I suspect there is no solution to the problem, except using both 21 and an older version on the same computer. I have older versions of Opera on one win 8.1 laptop and one Linux laptop, so I will manage. Using any other browser than Opera is, of course, out of the question.

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