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Have you tried using zoom, instead of changing the minimum font size? It would be reset for every different site you visit (at least on FF, not sure about other browsers) but from my experience scaling the whole site up instead of just the text doesn't break websites as much.

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Hahahahaha, zoom. Since I installed the 13.04 version of ubuntu on my MBP retina, I get the pleasure of cruising the web at 200%. Half the sites out there break.

Chrome's zoom works really well, give it a shot.

I do use Chrome's. It does work way better than FF, but you'd be surprised at how much text out there is loaded with third party JS or flash and doesn't "grow" with the the zoom.

You might wanna try Opera 12. It's going the way of the dodo, but it has always had the best zoom of all browsers. In my experience there are only some few video applets that don't zoom properly because they render in exact pixels.

can you point me to a site that breaks Chrome's zooming? It rarely fails for me, and I use it quite a bit. Maybe I can figure out what's going wrong.

There is enough driver support for rMBP? What's your battery like?

Battery is great. I've actually been running this for about a year now. But I'm a hacker. Getting 13.04 to run when it was only Jan 2013 was a challenge. Also, installing Mavericks OSX on the dual boot partition fucked my ubuntu boot loader, so now I resort to booting with alt-option held down. Also, I had to rebuild gnome or something. I can't remember. It took me almost a day. Also, I don't have sound in Ubuntu, but that is a 13.04 problem since the HDMI output is on the same something something as the normal audio out.

Like I said, not for the beginner. Then again, what else am I supposed to use? Mac has by far the best hardware and OSX is a giant piece of crap for power users.

I would try mint linux, but I'm too afraid of being stuck without support.

I've thought of making a small side company that only sells rMBPs with dual boot ubuntu at a 200 dollar markup. I'd pay that, but maybe I'm not your normal computer user.

Yes, zoom is great in OS X. I admit I haven't tried it in Firefox, I will now.

Whenever I encounter a site that doesn't render properly with large fonts, I simply turn off the minimum font size in Firefox and use the OS X Accessibility keyboard shortcuts to zoom in. This works well, but it's annoying to have to keep switching around like that. E.g. it would be nice to have faster access to the Firefox submenu that controls minimum font size.

Yea, I agree with this.

I find if I'm tired, I need to increase the zoom to read text, so a quick mouse wheel while holding Ctrl and then a Ctrl-0 when finished and it's like it never happened

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