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The best upgrade you can do for any computer is to replace the ugly font it (most likely) is currently using as your browser's default font with a font that is designed for superior on-screen legibility. Windows and Linux machine generally come through with horrible ugly fonts installed as the default browser font. Happily, Microsoft has commissioned several excellent fonts designed for video screen use and made them available for free download.
Recent versions of Windows have some (or all) of these fonts already installed. If you don't already have them, Windows and Macintosh users can download a free copy of these fonts from here.
Linux users can obtain the Microsoft Web fonts from here. (Red Hat 6.x RPM format.) Mandrake 7.x users who dual boot with a Windows machine can use DrakFont to install their existing Windows fonts. Linux web browser are really improved when you install Verdana and use it as the default proportional font. You can also experiment with configuring your (X)windows manager to use Verdana as a system font (for dialog boxes and menus and such.)
Windows 9X users should check out Microsoft's free Font Properties Extension.
Select the font you want for Web Page Font (i.e., Georgia) This is the font that the browser uses for proportional spaced text (unless the web page overrides this.) The Plain Text Font must be monospaced and is used to simulate typewriter output. It also might be used for email.
After you have chosen the fonts you want, then click on OK. Click on Refresh to see the effects of your change.
Select the font you want for Variable Width Font (i.e., Georgia) This is the font that the browser uses for proportional spaced text (unless the web page overrides this.) The Fixed Width Font must be monospaced and is used to simulate typewriter output. It also might be used for email.
After you have chosen the fonts you want, then click on OK. Click on Reload to see the effects of your change.
Select the font you want for Standard Font (i.e., Verdana) This is the font that the browser uses for proportional spaced text (unless the web page overrides this.) The Fixed Font must be monospaced and is used to simulate typewriter output. Set the other fonts as you choose.
After you have chosen the fonts you want, then click on Apply, then on OK. Click on the reload button to see the effects of your change.
Note that KDE Konqueror is much better in this regard than either Internet Explorer or Netscape, because it lets you choose more default fonts for different clases of formatting. Point goes to Linux and KDE. IMO, KDE Konqurer displays web pages much better than Netscape does. If you are running KDE2, then give Konqueror a try.
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