Firefox experts--how do I do this?

[Justice Is Comin]

I have Yahoo email and there is a way to show in the toolbar that messages have arrived and the number of them. I had it working perfectly before but I had an idiot come to my house with the belief that he was a computer expert. He lost everything in my computer and I'm having to reconstruct everything from square one.

I had a data recovery company recover some of the files but most were history. Firefox was one of them. Any help would be appreciated.

[JTFrog]

1. Perhaps you were using this?

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1264/

[Justice Is Comin]

2. You are the man.

That's exactly what I was looking for. I knew it was a simple download, I just couldn't remember it or find it. Thanks buddy.

I'm having another problem now too that's driving me crazy. I get different text sizes on web pages. Some are so small and blurry, I can't read them and others are giant size. This was also problem free before. Now, I have to keep manually increasing and decreasing the text size. Yahoo looks like Chinese before I increase the text size. DU, I could see the text from twenty feet until I decrease it.

Do you have any theory on that?

[JTFrog]

4. Hmmm

you can set your default fonts by going to Tools/Options (or Preferences on Mac), selecting the "Content" panel, and selecting a default font and size in the "Fonts & Colors" section.

Also you can set a minimum font size, go to Tools/Options (or Preferences on Mac) and select the "Content" panel. In the "Fonts & Colors" section, immediately after the default font and size selection, click the "Advanced" button. You can specify a minimum font size from the dropdown menu.

[panzerfaust]

5. Try This

Using this will, at least, allow you to easily change the font size:
https://addons.mozilla.org/search.php?q=quickzoom&type=E&app=firefox

Also, you can go under FireFox Tools|Options|Content|Fonts|Advanced and disable "Allow web pages to use own fonts" - though this will make many pages look very weird.

11th Commandment: Don't let anyone mess with your computer unless they are willing to post a BOND!

[Breeze54]

6. Click tools and then

Options and then Content; then under Fonts and Colors click Advanced (on the right)

Then towards the bottom UNCHECK --->
Allow Pages to use their own fonts, instead of my selection above.

Hope that helps. You might have to play with it. IE. Test it to suit you.

Although I have that checked and my webpages look normal. To me! lol

[Vidar]

7. Couldn't find a firefox solution. Here is the Windows method.

Press "Start" button in lower left hand corner. Open Windows Control Panel. From the list there, open the "Display" window. In that window, from the tabs across the top, select "Settings". In this window press the "Advanced" button in th lower right. In the middle of this window is the DPI setting. Select the largest number. Press "OK" at bottom. Hope this helps.

Breeze just posted a simpler method above.

[Breeze54]

9. He's using the Firefox browser...not IE.

;)

[Pierre.Suave]

3. This is always a lesson learned too late

but, BACKUP your data. Computers will crash, it is inevitable.

What did he do to lose all your data?

[Breeze54]

8. Read this from FF--> Websites look wrong

Websites look wrong

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Websites_look_wrong

The problem may also be related to your browser settings or configuration, a Firefox/Mozilla Suite bug,
a problematic extension or another program that is blocking web content.
If you don't find an answer below, look through all articles related to web page display, listed here.

Common problems and solutions

(There are a lot of possible reasons and solutions but you stated
that you're starting from scratch so this might be your issue.)

Many websites need JavaScript to work correctly and some require Java.
Make sure these features are enabled in your browser settings and are not
being blocked by an extension or by your internet security software.

;) Have you updated your JS yet?

[Justice Is Comin]

10. Much obliged to you all.

I will try all the suggestions.

As far as the idiot who caused me all this, he's looking at a lawsuit in magistrate court for all my consequential damages and time loss. Perhaps he will be a little less anxious to hold himself out as a computer expert.

You better betcha I'm going to have stuff backed up now.