Reviews for Toggle Fonts
Toggle Fonts by Manuel Reimer
Review by Nebula
Rated 5 out of 5
by Nebula, 3 years agoDoes exactly what I was looking for! I put it under Firefox's overflow menu and now it's available whenever I need it. I have custom fonts set for serif and sans-serif which are more legible than the defaults (let alone what many sites override them with) so this works wonders for me.
Note this addon works by toggling the actual browser setting, so it affects all tabs/windows at once—no per-page control. This isn't an issue for me, but it's something to keep in mind (certain web apps / document editors may not function fully without enabling custom fonts—that's one of the things which makes a toggle addon like this so useful).
Note this addon works by toggling the actual browser setting, so it affects all tabs/windows at once—no per-page control. This isn't an issue for me, but it's something to keep in mind (certain web apps / document editors may not function fully without enabling custom fonts—that's one of the things which makes a toggle addon like this so useful).
36 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Howie, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by island_in_the_sun, 5 months agoExcellent, thanks a lot for programming this! I am using for not other particualr reason than to better distinguish "Il1" in URLs the free font Atkinson Hyperlegible, but this breaks my FritzBox-Website as well a other web sites. This switch then comes in handy!
- Rated 5 out of 5by mmmel4real, 5 months agoEssential addon in all of my Firefox variants. Actually I LOVE all of this author's "toggle" addons.
Toggling website fonts (and toggling Zoom-Text-Only -- see addon here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-zoom-text-only/) really helps with smaller screens, or for hard-of-seeing folks, or you're just picky about nice clear fonts. For many years I've been screwing with my browser fonts because I HATE Times New Roman, and hate small text. That font just jangles my nerves it's so spiky and unclear. As a result my webpages are often not rendered properly. These two toggle buttons really help with straightening out text on-the-fly when you need it. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13608702, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rafael, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by andrea.ippo, a year agoI love this! For years I've been wanting to have all pages use my preferred fonts, and then eventually went back to the default setting because some special glyph used in some pages was missing in my font of choice.
While it would be cool for Firefox to implement some kind of fallback mechanism for these cases, it's great that in its absence I can still revert to the website fonts with the click of a toggle in my Toolbar.
Thanks so much for this! - Rated 5 out of 5by dulus, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Reset, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11731480, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by darose, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mano Lito, 3 years agoExactly what I needed!
I recently updated Firefox browser to the latest version (89.0) on my Linux distro, and that seems to have somehow messed up the size of the fonts on several websites, including Gmail - making them very tiny.
Tried various methods, but nothing worked until I came across this extension.
I'm now able to easily enable or disable website defined fonts instead of having to navigate to Firefox's "Language & Appearance" settings each time to make the change.
Thank you so much, Mr. Manuel Reimer, for this simple but incredibly useful tool. - Rated 4 out of 5by Voxel Draqon, 4 years agoThis is nearly exactly what I needed. I like using a font of my own choosing in most places, but that breaks Google Docs. The one thing that would make it better would be an option to set it for specific websites, but the extension is so simple and easy to use that that's barely an issue.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cyberknight, 4 years agoWhen you print a Page to a virtual printer and, instead of a lean text PDF, you get a huge file with now-searchable images, it means the Page you are trying to convert to PDF uses some fonts that Firefox cannot handle well as proper text, so it shoves screenshots of the pages into the printer. Luckily, most of the times that can be solved turning off external font usage, but it's utterly annoying to go to Tools-Options-General-Languages-Fonts-Advanced and check/uncheck the option there just to try it... Thus, this extension may not seem such a big deal, but the small thing it does, it does very well and when in a hurry, it saves more than time, it saves your mental sanity!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Gn. Cx, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15672859, 4 years agoI like this add-on, but cannot figure out (a) what the keyboard shortcut is; (b) how to edit said keyboard shortcut. Advice?
Developer response
posted 4 years agohttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/manage-extension-shortcuts-firefox
Edit: The "Reset shortcusts" button was a workaround for old Firefox versions which did not allow clearing a shortcut. As this issue is fixed since a few Firefox versions, I've just shipped a new version with this button removed. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16203141, 4 years agoVery handy; apparently it's impossible to do this per-site, so this is a great workaround for those few sites that need their own fonts.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoYes, unfortunately this is not possible. All my Add-on does is toggling a Firefox built-in setting and this always applies to all sites. - Rated 5 out of 5by Colchón Amarrado, 4 years ago... extraordinaria, mejor que estar yendo a desactivar en about:config!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12301524, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by cslillie, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vedun, 5 years ago