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Can I no longer change fonts in Safari 6?

I find no prefs in Safari for changing to my preferred font. ???

Posted on Jul 25, 2012 12:19 PM

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Feb 19, 2017 1:18 PM in response to Ocalawill

A big thank you to you, sir. I'm still on Safari 5.1.7 as my second browser with Firefox playing my primary browser, the latter handling web formatting on up-to-date level opposite to Safari. It's Appearance tab has rendered down to utter uselessness though it's not what we, users, want and expect. However the use of that extension became the only choice I was left with: yes CSS is the geeky thing but since I personally don't bother learning I'll tackle this task though it's not Apple's "just works" (more preferable) way nowadays.

Jul 25, 2012 8:05 PM in response to octafish

Let it be an lesson that it may be unwise to upgrade to Mountain Lion. I am livid that Apple once again does not test its' software before a release. I wonder who the idiots are that test this software. I wonder if the management team at Apple really uses Windows 7 and laughs at how they put out junk for us to test for them.


There is no quality control anymore. I just do not understand Apple anymore. No sense of getting it right the first time. I would not care if Mountain Lion was free. They can keep it if Safari 6 is any sample of that great innovation.

Jul 25, 2012 10:00 PM in response to BillF

A agree Bill. Not only the type but the Search Box is gone, Activity Window is no longer and Shift-Command-i is gone too, so is the RSS.


We can't go back to the previous version os Safari unless we re-install Lion (which I'm doing tomorrow).


As for the Quality Control, we can start seeing why Steve Jobs was so important to Apple.

Jul 25, 2012 11:00 PM in response to printlab

I'm pretty sure this still falls under the category of Steve Jobs era updates, even if he's not around personally for the launch. For as long as I can remember people ***** and moan about every new Apple update and threaten to roll back to earlier versions, me included. I hate Safari 6 right now, but like with every update, over time, they'll roll in some user suggestions, fix some bugs and the rest of the changes, most of us will get used to. It's like with Facebook, people just barely stopped short of death threats against Mark Zuckerberg as a result of the that stupid scrolling ticker. Now everyone s used to it and Facebook would seem strange without it.

Jul 26, 2012 8:12 AM in response to Ocalawill

I wonder if it has anything to do with the Retina display for the new 15" MBP? Safari 6 may have been optimized for the Retnia and somehow reduces the font size in our non-retina screens?


FYI, I service web sites and I always noticed that the text was one size bigger in the browser versus what i would see in the html editor. Now in Safari 6 it looks exactly like it does in the editor window. Could it be that they are now showing a more accurate view of what web site developers are creating?


Maybe they are ahead of the curve?

Can I no longer change fonts in Safari 6?

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