Increase text size in browsers

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Increase text size in browsers

I know how to change it temporarily with command -/+ but how do I keep it consistenly large? I notice I keep hunching over and then realized that despite zooming in on one site, the next site I go to, the font size resets to small again. Also it would be ideal to increase the font size without increasing the size of everything else on the page because sometimes this destroys the functionality of the page when certain elements get so big they obscure the whole screen (like photos or interactive buttons etc.) Also don't want to change the resolution because that will mess up functionality of photo editing software etc. Using Safari and Chrome. Happens on both.

Macbook Pro 16"

MacOS 10.15.7

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Feb 10, 2025 08:39 PM

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HWTech

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Feb 11, 2025 09:19 AM in response to froggiefingaz

You would have liked the classic Opera v12.x browser back in the day where they had a zoom feature that left the pictures alone and only increased the text size....it was wonderful....they had their own custom rendering engine which was awesome and it was not a resource hog like the Chromium engine. Vivaldi is as close as I've been able to get to the classic Opera v12.x browser for features & behavior.

I only use the Vivaldi browser, but Vivaldi has an option to set the default Zoom for every window/tab. It also has some font options, so I don't how those font options will affect the page. I don't know what options other browsers may offer since Vivaldi is all about the power user and lots of customization options. See the screenshot here for the options available in Vivaldi:

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