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17. November 2011, 18:54:43

sethfulton

Banned user

tiny font size in gmail rich formatting compose window using Opera Next 12.x alpha

Is anyone else having a problem with tiny font sizes in the gmail compose (rich text) box when using the Opera next 12.x alpha?

This problem only happens with the rich formatting. When I select plain text the font size is normal and as expected.

20. November 2011, 02:36:27

GeneValgene

Posts: 312

yep...happens in 11.50 build 1159 as well. opera is the only browser that has this issue in gmail

20. November 2011, 20:25:39

sethfulton

Banned user

FWIW, I do not have this issue with Opera 11.52 on Ubuntu 11.10

20. November 2011, 20:51:49

GeneValgene

Posts: 312

Originally posted by sethfulton:

FWIW, I do not have this issue with Opera 11.52 on Ubuntu 11.10

doh...guess it's an 11.60 thing

13. December 2011, 01:22:27

DaiMonPaul

Posts: 7

I just upgraded to 11.60 on Win7 -- I too have this problem with GMail. Manually changing the font size in the compose box to "normal" fixes it, but if I save the message as a draft, it reverts to its smaller size. This just started with my upgrade.

13. December 2011, 05:24:31

GeneValgene

Posts: 312

check out one of the solutions posted in the thread here by user pablou:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1172672&t=1323753803&page=1#comment11045192

Originally posted by pablou:

I found a better solution, go to the LABS tab of gmail settings and enable: Default Text Styling by Jonathan K, save and select normal font as the reply choice. Voila! problem solved.

13. December 2011, 05:49:15

sethfulton

Banned user

Great find, thanks. I tried the solution and it actually seems to be working after a few failed compose attempts.

18. December 2011, 20:47:06

not2bright

Posts: 118

I have the default text lab enabled, but in 11.60 Gmail's compose window doesn't seem to recognize it ! I have it set to use verdana 10, but it always displays arial ! ???

27. December 2011, 07:23:22

harehead

Posts: 48

I just realized I don't even have the option of 'rich formatting' when using Opera. Other browsers are fine... but with Opera, there is NOTHING where all the formatting options should be. Way on the right side, it says "check spelling", but that's it.

Any ideas why this may be the case?

27. December 2011, 07:53:50

harehead

Posts: 48

It seems that "mask as Firefox" is what disables Rich Formatting when composing emails. To make Google+ top bar work properly I have to mask or identify as Firefox (along with using the Google User Agent Enforcer.) If I identity as Opera, Rich Formatting works, but the Top Bar no longer works. Seems I can't have a functional Top Bar and Rich Formatting at the same time.

These hiccups are getting tiresome.

25. January 2012, 20:30:38

yakichan

Posts: 108

Originally posted by harehead:

It seems that "mask as Firefox" is what disables Rich Formatting when composing emails. To make Google+ top bar work properly I have to mask or identify as Firefox (along with using the Google User Agent Enforcer.) If I identity as Opera, Rich Formatting works, but the Top Bar no longer works. Seems I can't have a functional Top Bar and Rich Formatting at the same time.

These hiccups are getting tiresome.

Hi. I identify as Opera and I have the Google+ bar (I think Google has fixed it)

29. February 2012, 17:12:28

hybridion

Posts: 5

I also have this problem but found a good work-around. It's cause and fix are mentioned here:

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=11471022

Opera used to have a bug that gmail worked around. Opera fixed that bug, but Gmail hasn't removed the workaround and it's causing this problem.

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