What did I do to my SDMB display?

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I was browsing the Dope this evening, when I must have had a problem with my mouse. The text for the entire page went to about a size 0.5.

I’m browsing in Google Chrome on a Windows 7 desktop machine. This only happens when I’m on the message board; the main site shows p okay.

I’m going to submit this and check to see if the problem persists when I’m logged off, and when I’m in Firefox.

BRB, and TIA.
ETA: Okay, I’m back, and browsing in Firefox. Everything is behaving normally. In Chrome, the condition persists even when I’m logged out.

Any ideas?

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Try hitting control+0 (zero).

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Thanks, that did it!

Any idea what I hit to screw things up, and why it only messed up the message board?

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CTRL and + or CTRL and - simultaneously will make the text larger or smaller.

Holding down CTRL and scrolling the mouse wheel in either direction can also make the text larger or smaller.

CTRL and 0 resets the text size, as was already mentioned.

Since you mention possibly having a mouse issue, I’m guessing you accidentally had CTRL depressed while moving the mouse wheel.

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I always disable the scroll mouse feature if there’s any chance the keyboard could have a key accidentally pressed. So the computer in the living room (where you just put the keyboard on your lap) has it shut off.

In Firefox, there was a built in way to do it, but I couldn’t find one in Chrome, so I just used an AutoHotkey script to disable it. I keep Ctrl-/+ though.

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Thanks for the responses and the lesson on how to operate my computer.

I have an essential tremor that sometimes results in my hand doing things that I didn’t consciously tell it to do. Experimenting suggests that I scrolled the mouse wheel to its limit with Ctrl depressed.

Still wondering why it only affected the message board pages, though.

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Because it stores the zoom setting for each page individually. So does Firefox. Unlike MS browsers.

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One thing you can do is install NoSquint. It won’t prevent the Ctrl-Mousewheel from working, but it will restore the zoom to the default setting for the site if you refresh the page.

I have the Dope always set on 155% zoom, while most sites are set on 125%. (My screen is 2 - 3 feet away from me.)