Yeah, Nano, I’m looking through the Internet Options in IE, and I’m
not seeing anything useful. Your best bet is probably to hold down
the control key when clicking on a link that you want to open in a
new tab.
BINGO!!! Thanks. This’ll do just fine. 
so much for Yorick
ah , well 
jester the way it goes
You must be thinking of someone else … 
I heard that.
keep fiddling with the browser…I’m sure that you can fix it!
Funny. 
oh, and how come MT’s handle isn’t a mod color?
I don’t think that’s so. Firefox doesn’t act the same as it used to, either
(without plugins to force it to). The board used to specify external links
with the anchor tag’s “target” set to something besides “_top” so that
the links would come up in a new window (which the browser would redir
to a new tab instead). But now the board is showing links with no “target”
attribute:
<a class="postlink" href="http://somesite">Hey, click me!</a>
If you wanted it in a new tab/window, the board would need this kind of link:
<a target="_blank" href="http://somesite">I open a new tab or window.</a>
IE and Firefox are not designed to open non-targetted links in a new tab.
And if you could set them to do so, every time you opened a topic on this
forum, it would come up in a new tab, because those links are untargetted,
too.
EDIT: In fact, this page seems to suggest that it’s a different default from
phpBB2, and that you can change the phpBB code to change the behavior:
http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/links-opening-new-windows/
Umm…we’re workin’ on it.
Thanks for the suggestion of “control” & “0”, azw – but it didn’t change a thing. It is still very small print on the normal setting. However using “control” & “+” does give me a much easier size font to read. Thanks! I wasn’t aware that would work.
Judy
I used to have the small font problem on an old work machine
that had a crazy high resolution monitor. What I did was go to
Firefox’s Options, and hit the “Content” tab. In the section for
Fonts & Colors, click the “Advanced…” button. In that window
should be a drop down box labeled “Minimum font size”, which
is probably set to “None”. If you set this, it overrides any font
that’s smaller than the font size you put in. Great for high
resolution screens and presbyopics, too!
(Caveat: setting a minimum font size might make some websites
look really funny because they were designed by people who
foolishly assume a fixed font size…)
AH! That solved the problem perfectly. Changing the minimum font from “none” to 10 worked. Many thanks, fearfaoin! 
Dale, if you’re not comfortable changing the code I could do it for you. This links thing is really bugging me…