Swiftfox make menus - font size smaller

[ade234uk]

I installed the MSCOREFONTS and all my menus have resized properly as I selected the Arial Font.
I downloaded Swiftfox, but the menus have not resized.

Do you know the workaround for this?

Many Thanks

[askrieger]

Re: Swiftfox make menus - font size smaller

I'm confused. I went to the Firefox Addons page and I could not find an extension named Swiftfox. I also checked in Synaptic for a package named Swiftfox. Again, I was unsuccessful. Where did you find it? Are you perhaps referring to Fasterfox?

[lordzerg]

Re: Swiftfox make menus - font size smaller

@asklerger: swiftfox is not an extension. is an optimized version of firefox. try to google it, and give it a try.
@ade: i remembering having the same problem with it when i used on ubuntu... i haven't tried on kubuntu yet. And sadly i didn't found a workaround, as i remember changing the fonts in swiftfox preferences did nothing. it always used the same fonts with the same size. still it was faster at browsing.

[askrieger]

Re: Swiftfox make menus - font size smaller

Ah ha! the first item in the Google/Linux search was a blog entry by an Ubuntu user. Apparently Swiftfox is a version of Firefox that appears to have modified for faster loading. The blog entry describes the setup for Gnome. However, a comment to the blog entry points out that it is CLOSED SOURCE. The second Google/Linux entry is entitled "Swiftfox--Perversion Of Open Source?", a dialog at "Digg.com.

Personally, I find that the slowest part of web surfing on my system is the time it takes to look up IP addresses at my ISP's DNS server. Accordingly, I signed up for OpenDNS and now I'm a happy camper without adding any more propriety s/w to my system.