I just installed Safari 6 on my MBP using Lion. I noticed that the text at the default size of Safari 6 was smaller. I looked at the preferences to increase the size of the text, but there is no setting. I compared to Firefox and Chrome and the text is noticeably smaller.
Has anyone noticed this?
Any way to set default for larger text?
MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Create a text file in TextEdit (not RTF) -- copy and paste this
/* From Apple Discussion Board Suggestions */
\* {
font-family: Lucida Grande !important;
font-size: 12px !important;
line-height: 16px !important;
}
body, p, b, i, u, h1, h1*, h2, h2*, h3, h3*, h4, h4*, h5, h5*, h6, h6* \[class\], \[span\], \[id\], \[style\] {
font-family: Lucida Grande !important;
}
/* My custom defs */
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, td, input, * {
font-family: Lucida Grande !important;
}
and save it as *.css (* being any name you wish to give the file). In Safari -> Preferences -> Advanced apple the save *.css file.
I do hope that Apple restores the default font size preference to Safari. In the meantime, there are a couple of extensions in the Safari Extensions Gallery (http://extensions.apple.com) that might help. (To enable extensions, go to Safari > Preferences > Extensions and click the "On" button, then click "Get Extensions" to visit the gallery.)
ZoomBySite - replaces the built-in zoom in Safari with a version that automatically restores the zoom level for each site with the settings from your last visit.
QuickStyle - enables more flexible restyling of a site. For example, you can zoom just the text but leave other elements (e.g. sidebar, footer) unchanged. Like ZoomBySite, your settings are remembered the next time you visit the site.
These extensions have been around for a while. I've just checked that they still work with Safari 6 under Mountain Lion.
Hope this helps.
I've solved my own problem simply by removing the "font-family" names from the CSS file as shown below:
/* From Apple Discussion Board Suggestions */
\* {
font-size: 10px !important;
line-height: 16px !important;
}
body, p, b, i, u, h1, h1*, h2, h2*, h3, h3*, h4, h4*, h5, h5*, h6, h6* \[class\], \[span\], \[id\], \[style\] {
}
/* My custom defs */
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, td, input, * {
}
I'll let each webpage decide which font is being used, as long as it is the size I want it.
As I suspected, although the settings for default font face and size have been removed from the Safari Preferences interface, they are still available via "defaults write" terminal commands. A posting on the Mac OS X Hints website explains how to do it: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120731105734626
Thank you -- just what I was looking for. Haven't visited macosxhints in a while...
It works! Nearly ran out into the street yelling Eureka!
Apple is catering to their younger demographic... that's why there are no more 17" Macbooks.
Safari 6 on Lion, text much smaller?
