Firefox images problem

August 10, 2007 2:44 PM

Why is Firefox suddenly making all embedded images slightly larger?

Using Firefox 2.0.0.6 on a PC. All of a sudden all web graphics are slightly bigger, maybe 10%. It's not a big deal but it is annoying because it is screwing with the layout of all the sites I visit. What's going on here?

posted by papakwanz to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Best answer: I've found screwy, undocumented effects with my scroll wheel on my mouse - if I push it to one side (there *are* supposed to be custom buttons there) and then roll the wheel, the text will change sizes. Perhaps the same happened to you only with images.
posted by notsnot at 3:04 PM on August 10, 2007

Best answer: Firefox's normal zoom features don't affect images. Do you have any exensions or user stylesheets installed?

Is it possible the text size changed ("View" menu - "Text size")? That would make everything except images smaller, which would be similar to making images larger.
posted by mbrubeck at 3:18 PM on August 10, 2007

Response by poster: notsnot: I tried right clicking on some images and scrolling, and it did shrink them back down to normal size, but unless I select every image individually and shrink it down, all the rest still appear slightly larger.

So, I checked "View" as mbrubeck suggested. Text Size was the same, but Image Zoom was set to 120%. I've put it back to 100% and everything seems normal now. Thanks!
posted by papakwanz at 3:39 PM on August 10, 2007

Image Zoom is an extension, BTW.
posted by smackfu at 3:59 PM on August 10, 2007