708449 - Ability to change fonts to Bold via edit->Preferences

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[George R. Goffe]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Build ID: 20111104165243

Steps to reproduce:

This is a wish, not a bug. 

I would like to have the option to change my display of fonts to  include a "bold" option.

ctrl-+ makes the font bigger AND seems to make it bold as well. I'd love to have this be an option that I can turn on.

Thanks for the GREAT browser!

Comment 1

[Andre Klapper]

George,
Where exactly would you expect this in the Preferences dialog? 
Under "Content > Fonts & Colors > Advanced"?

Comment 2

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

You can use Preferences to change the default (serif/sans-serif/monospace) font families and select designs that tend to be a bit heavier (even in their "regular" face).

I don't think there should be an option to make all fonts use the Bold weight by default. That would destroy significant styling in many cases. (How would you expect <b> or <strong> tags to be rendered, if the "plain" font is already bold?)

Comment 3

[George R. Goffe]

Andre,

What you're suggesting sounds good to me. Something as simple as making the effect of <ctrl>-+ apply to all pages/URLs?

To answer Jonathan's concern, perhaps making these use a larger size in the same font family, or just doing it how the <ctrl>-+ does it. 

George...