588034 - Changing the font size of the active window with Crtl+mouse scroll

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 250415

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, enhancement)

Description

[Pascal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 3.1

with a lot of software we can change the font size with "Crtl+mouse scroll" however Thurnderbird does not allow this feature yet. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. locate the mouse pointer in one of the 3 thunderbird window, 
2. press control on the keyboard & simultaneously use the scroll part of the mouse to increase or decrease the font size of the window below which the mouse is located.
Actual Results:  
... at the moment nothing...

Expected Results:  
... but it would make reading emails more confortable if the font size was changing as it does in firefox for instance...

Comment 1

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)(Got a cold so that using sick leaves)]

It's supported by ESM in Gecko, so, tb also has this feature. I confirmed this feature in the message pain on the main window of the latest Daily build on Win7.

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

This feature was added to TB some time ago (TB10).