Firefox / Thunderbird tweaks

[Cam]

The screenshots in the pdaXrom site don\'t do justice to the Mozilla apps. Here\'s some things you can do to improve them.

* change the toolbars: View/Toolbars/Customize...
  - drag the google search off the toolbar to get a bigger url entry area
  - set the toolar to use Icons and tick \'Small Icons\'
  - disable the bookmarks toolbar for an extra line of webpage
* Change the options: Tools/Options...
  - Fonts, choose smaller ones like Proportional size 12, Bitstream Vera Serif/Sans/Sans Mono size 10, minimum font size none
* low level stuff: change the menu and dialog font sizes:
  - edit /home/root/.phoenix/default/*/chrome/userChrome.css

menupopup ] * {
  font-size: 12pt !important
}

and so on. (basically uncomment parts of the example file that is provided and rename to userChrome.css). I found that a 12pt size was suitable for me.

For thunderbird, do pretty much the same with the .thunderbird directory.

* for thunderbird turn off Junk mail controls because they will force a read of every message to see if it\'s junk! Not wise if you are on GPRS.

[piotr]

Yes You right. After your tweaking it is much more usable. But still the main drawback is the size of whole distribution - so many Mb for just browser and mail. I am using  firefox - fork of mozzila and sylphed for mail. And I am very happy. For quick browser I have dillo.
piotr

[ScottYelich]

man... if dillo would just get a clue and make tables work... it would be so amazing.

[Cam]

I found the magic words to fix the overly large thunderbird fonts:

In the userChrome.css file add:

.tree-rows {
    font-size: 10pt !important;
}

Also as a general rule you can use DOMinspector on a desktop Mozilla to find the names of GUI parts so you can control their appearance. Please report any further improvements especially with the dialogs...

-Cam