Post #1562518

2026-04-21 18:07 UTC

firefox has settings where you can change the default font for unstyled pages, and also set the minimum font size but I haven't been able to find a way to set the maximum text width when you visit an unstyled page, so raw HTML pages still look pretty unreadable for no good reason is there a secret hidden way to do this that will prevent pages like https://danluu.com/input-lag/ from taking up the entire width of the window?

Replies (4)

@deshipu@fosstodon.org 2026-04-21 18:18

@technomancy You can always setup a user stylesheet, I think?

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@zyd@yap.zyd.lol 2026-04-21 18:23

@technomancy Side note: If you uncheck the "allow web pages to choose their own fonts..." than this applies to all web pages, not just unstyled ones. But you could do this with Stylus to write a stylesheet that applies to everything. Like attached screenshot does what you want for danluu (of course it'd be better to write the Stylesheet to only apply to his domain, that's usually what I do)

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@mattly@hachyderm.io 2026-04-21 18:31

@technomancy I'm unaware of how to do this in any browser without a user stylesheet (which, 30 years later, what the actual fuck?), but I have in my user stylesheet p { max-width: 60em; } which applies to any page styled or not, but I figure if someone is styling pages and have text that long, they don't know what they're doing and fuck them

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@mia@tearoom.tearmoon.com 2026-04-21 21:00

@technomancy my solution as a Firefox user, for websites like Dan's, is to press F9 (caveat: does not work for everything, but visibly improves a lot of stuff, and sometimes bypasses silly, JavaScript-based paywalls)

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