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269865 2004-09-06 14:24:00 Thanks, Robert
Yes, that's my Firefox.
So back to the drawing board...
Laura (43)
269866 2004-09-06 14:43:00 It's deffinately to do with the font size Laura as at first viewing that site I had problems in Netscape 7.1 and Fedora1 but reduced font settings I had at 14 to 12 and all was well. mikebartnz (21)
269867 2004-09-06 15:04:00 Thanks, Mike

So obviously I haven't managed to decrease my font size properly in Firefox (Newbie not managing the View info successfully, it seems. Will have to persevere)

However, your input about Netscape & Fedora results is also valuable in the context of Murray P's comments about partially-sighted people.

Much as I approve of the PSIS co-operative banking system (which I've used happily for many years) and the prompt reply from its webmaster, I guess any website which doesn't function perfectly on all text sizes does need more work in providing options to Internet Explorer.
I guess a message to that effect (politely-worded, of course) is now in order.
Laura (43)
269868 2004-09-06 22:12:00 No problems with the PSIS website in all three browsers here (Opera, Firefox and IE).

What a brilliant website though, has to be the easiest banking site of the lot to navigate and find info. Bouquets for them, not brickbats. ;-)
Fire-and-Ice (3910)
269869 2004-09-06 22:20:00 Easiest way to increase or decrease the font size in Firefox is by using Ctrl+Plus (to increase) and Ctrl+Minus (to decrease). antmannz (28)
269870 2004-09-06 22:43:00 Fine in Firefox 9.2, but then I normally don't rely on defaults and tweak the settings to suit me.

My settings for a 17" CRT monitor are: Tools > Options > General > Fonts & Colours, make sure you fonts are set to Western, Propertional = 16 pixels, Mono space = 13 pixels, Display resolution = 96 and Minimum font size = none.

Is View > Character encoding on Auto or Western ISO
Have you got Tools > Options > Advanced > Multimedia Large images set to fit in browser windows.

Thats all I can think of for the moment. Write down your current settings then have a play with the fonts, some settings will need a refresh or restart of the browser to take effect, can't remember which though.

Cheers Murray P
Murray P (44)
269871 2004-09-06 22:51:00 >>Recently I emailed the webmaster for the PSIS banking site, which was fine when I used IE, but is messy (line & colour overlays on homepage & others) since I switched to Firefox. Transactions work fine, but it's hard to read.
>>I got a prompt and lengthy reply, which I was very pleased with.


I'm a PSIS customer too and i have used firefox on ithe website for ages with none of the problems you seem to be having, I found it to be a little snappier in firefox than in IE, although I do use the bog standard font size.

Which brings me to a problem i am having with firefox, about a month ago a cleared firefoxs cache and cookies, and since then it has been a dog about 50% of the time when i click on a link I get a little message popping up saying

>"this object contains no data"

and then sometimes it loads the page, othertimes it doesn't,

I have also noticed that it seems to be running a lot slower with the antivirus I have installed "Panda Titanium Trial version" but as this does not contain a firewall, I'm a little perplexed as to why this is so, Previously I had "panda platinum" which came with everything including a firewall and it had no problem whatsoever (but it was a trial that came with my mobo or graphics card)

>>>>>>sorry about the hijacking of the thread but it is firefox related
Nigel Thomson (629)
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