Browser Short-Cuts to Aid Your Web Viewing
Browser Short-Cuts to Aid Your Web Viewing
Browser Short-Cuts - keystroke sequences and/or combinations of keys entered together - can make reading blogs or websites much easier on your eyes.
Regardless of the view settings you choose for your favourite flavour of web browser, you will find that many websites have chosen to publish in font-sizes that display either as hugely unreadable or as teeny-tiny "fine print", most often it's the latter and the print on the page is just too small to comfortably read. You do not want to be constantly changing your default browser settings just to view some random or rarely viewed website, you want to set the basics of your browser to give you the best view of the sites you regularly visit.
Below are three browser short-cut keystroke sequences to instantly, and just temporarily, change the view-size of your browser tab:
- The key sequence "CTRL (control key) plus the plus-sign" will enlarge the view of any webpage in your browser.
- Likewise the key sequence "CTRL plus the minus-sign" will shrink a webpage.
Running either of these key sequences multiple times will continue enlarging/shrinking the page.
- Lastly, you can return to your normal/default browser view setting by entering the key sequence "CTRL plus the 0 key" (that is "0" as in ZERO).
In FireFox and Chrome these changes in view size only affect the browser tab you are currently viewing plus any other tab that is also opened to the same website as the tab you run the view-size key sequences. (I haven't used Microsoft IE in years, but I seem to remember that these basic keystroke combinations also functioned the same with Explorer and most likely still do).
For example, in your browser you have twitter open in one tab, facebook in another tab, and you have 3 different pages open for RG each in their own tab.
1- If you view the twitter page and use the "CTRL minus-sign" key sequence only view of the one twitter page will be shrunk - no change to FB or RG pages in your browser.
2- You then go view one of the RG pages and use the "CRTL plus-sign" sequence to enlarge that page - no change to your twitter or FB pages, but all 3 of the RG pages will become larger.
3- You are still viewing one of the RG pages and you enter the "CRTL 0" sequence - all 3 RG pages revert back to your normal/default browser view-size setting, but there is no change to either the twitter or FB pages.
Happy web browsing!!!
