# Smilies with edges cut off-just me?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilies-with-edges-cut-off-just-me/545455
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**Created:** [July 3, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilies-with-edges-cut-off-just-me/545455 "2010-07-03T21:21:35Z")
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### Author: ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilies-with-edges-cut-off-just-me/545455/1 "2010-07-03T21:21:35Z")

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For the past few days, whenever I put a smiley in a post, the right-side and bottom-edges appear a _little bit_ ‘cropped’.

Is it just me/my machine? Or are any of the rest of you experiencing this?

Experiment: Here are the smilies as they appear on my machine, with notification of which ones appear cropped.  
🙂 (Right side and bottom cut off)  
😕 (Bottom cut off a bit)  
:eek: (Bottom cut off a bit)  
:mad: (Right side cut off)  
:rolleyes: (lower right a little cropped)  
🆒 (same as above)  
😛 (right side and bottom noticeably cut off)  
😉 (Bottom cropped  
😃 (Bottom and lower right cut off)  
:o (Right cut off)  
:dubious: (Not too bad, really)  
☹ (Lower right cropped)  
:smack: (Ironically, seems fine).

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### Author: ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilies-with-edges-cut-off-just-me/545455/2 "2010-07-03T21:33:47Z")

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Check under “view” on the menu bar Zoom in/Zoom out. You should have checked “zoom text only” (Firefox)

Try zooming out one step with “text only” unchecked.

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### Author: ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilies-with-edges-cut-off-just-me/545455/3 "2010-07-03T23:29:39Z")

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> [@runner pat](#):
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> Check under “view” on the menu bar Zoom in/Zoom out. You should have checked “zoom text only” (Firefox)
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> Try zooming out one step with “text only” unchecked.

Ah! Thanks!

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### Author: ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilies-with-edges-cut-off-just-me/545455/4 "2010-07-04T02:42:59Z")

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I’d recommend you get a plugin called [NoSquint](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2592/). You’ll probably want text-only zooming on pretty much every other site but here, and that extension will make it easier to pull that off, as it lets you fine tune your zoom settings.