Solution for High Res Displays for Old Eyes (and young also)

[kstuart]

After years of resistance to high resolution displays, I built a Home Theater PC for a 1920x1080 HD TV, so I was forced to find ways to deal with the resulting incredibly small typefaces. Most of these involved changing the density and fonts on Windows Desktop and Windows Display settings.

However, while the HT-PC is mostly for videos, for web browsing I recently purchased a T43 with Flexview 1440x1050 resolution, and have found that many web sites displayed as a narrow column within the browser, due to fixed width rather than variable width web page design.

I looked for an existing solution, and since I use Firefox, I was able to find an excellent extension:

NoSquint

The great feature of this extension is that it allows you to set a different zoom for each site and that zoom can be either overall zoom (such as the case of the narrow fixed width page), or text-only zoom (to make fonts bigger on sites with variable width pages), or both.

So, even if you are a 20-year old with perfect vision, you can use this extension to expand fixed width sites when browsing them with high res monitors, such as the Thinkpad Flexview displays.