Fix Drudge Report Font in Opera

April 24, 2007 · Filed Under howto

I’m sure there are a multitude of ways to do this, but here’s a really simple quick solution.

Open the window (or tab) containing www.drudgereport.com.
Hold down Ctrl on your keyboard and at the same time use your mouse scroll wheel to scroll downward (towards you) one click.

That should do it. The page should look exactly the same in Opera as it does in Firefox and Internet Explorer. All we did there is make the font on the page one size smaller. I know this is a really minor problem on the grand scale of things but it’s just one less annoyance when experimenting with alternative web browsers.

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Now that the solution is out of the way, lets wildly speculate as to the reason this is necessary.

The Drudge Report has been around forever and as far as I can tell the only real change I’ve seen on the site is the addition of advertising. I would say that when the site was originally designed it looked perfectly fine in whatever version of Internet Explorer was out at the time and that is all that was needed. Since then no standards compatibility or browser interoperability has been attempted as other browsers gain in popularity. Hope that helped you out.

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