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    How to change font size in IE11 ADDRESS bar & tabs?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by cognus, Jan 16, 2014.

  1. cognus

    cognus Notebook Deity

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    anyone noticed this? I'm running windows 8.1 on a Sammy 3 series, amd trinity A6 / radeon 7520 - other browsers look great but the font choice in IE11, in the address bar and associated Tab headers, is awfully small.
    everything else is ok [you can zoom, whatever].
    then when I plug in the BIG external HDTV, it looks really really small.

    so far not seeing a way to separately control that one issue :confused:
     
  2. StormJumper

    StormJumper Notebook Virtuoso

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    Can you provide a screen shot to know what exactly your referring to? I know on the browser of IE you use cntrl and - or + to zoom in or out is that what your talking about??
     
  3. cognus

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    no, just the address bar. everything else if fine.
    and, it seems peculiar to ie11 on windows 8, or 8.1 in my case. I can pull up IE11 on my 7 notebook, side by side with firefox and chrome, and the fonts & sizes in the address line look about the same on all three. but on the 8.1 machine, not so... the IE11 addresses are tiny, and then on the highres 1080p screen they look even tinier [cause they are... same pixels mapping, but more real estate].
    zoom works fine but has no effect on address bars and context menus
     
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    Odd in Windows 7 I don't have any problems are you describing....might be a problem with the font size with Windows 8 O/S but have to wait to see other users of W8 IE11 to see if they report the same problems.
     
  5. cognus

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    actually I do see it on the system I'm using right now: IE11 on a latitude e6410, NVidia 3100 gpu.

    but back to 8.0/8.1 - since posting I've read many other threads on this including a bunch on Microsoft forums - there is no cure except to use the APP on Windows 8 - which has huge fonts in the address line :)
    otherwise, MS chooses not to address it at all. the complaints have been around since ie9 days, but as resolution values [pixel density] have gone higher, they've not addressed, and the problem, per se, looks worse and worse as video improves. and we're talking about notebooks here... which now have the lousiest pixel density of any modern computing device! LOL...

     
  6. Krane

    Krane Notebook Prophet

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    No that's just the way it is. Its small but readable. To me anyway.

    You can make it bigger but its sharp and contrasty enough on my 1080p display. The size also allows you to put a lot in the browser.

    Another solution is to just get Firefox which is what I have. It too can easily be adjust, but shrinks and expands at a different ratio that IE. The blacks are inkier in IE.
     

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