Help! BBC iplayer has shrunk

[Dave Moll]

I apologise that my first post here relates to modern technology, but recently my display of BBC iplayer (and has been proved by accessing the post about R4 closure, the rest of the BBC web site) has shrunk to the extent that the text too small to read.  I don't know either what has changed to cause this, nor what to do to correct it.  This only applies to the bbc.co.uk web site, so it's not a general setting of my browser (which is Microsoft Edge in Windows 10 by the way), although I don't have the same problem running the Beeb in Google Chrome.   Any suggestions would be welcome.  I would attach an example if I could work out how to do so.

[Nick]

Probably that Edge remembers zoom settings for each site.

Press CTRL+'0' when looking at iPlayer.

That should reset your zoom settings for that site.

For completeness, CTRL+'+' zooms in and CTRL+'-' zooms out; CTRL+'0' resets zoom to 100%

Also, Chrome and Firefox uses the same zoom controls... If you're on a Mac, use CMD instead of CTRL.

[Dave Moll]

Thanks.  I didn't realise that the zoom function was specific to a web site.   I must have accidentally invoked this in shrink mode.  Anyhow, full size now gratefully restored.

[ppppenguin]

Hi Dave and welcome to Golborne.

Is there any special reason for using Edge? Is there ever any reason for using Edge?

[Dave Moll]

You imply there's a good reason for not using Edge.

Anyway, as I say, my problem is now solved.

[ppppenguin]

Yes. It's Microsoft. Plus it's based on Google's underpinning. So we presume it's slurping all your data for both  of them. I use Firefox.  People who are more hard core on privacy use a ff derivative such as Waterfox.

[Nick]

... it's based on Google's underpinning. So we presume it's slurping all your data for both  of them....

Poor science - actually: no science, just supposition and innuendo.

Many browsers are based on the open source Chromium project - in itself, it only has functional logging and callbacks (no commercial collection of data) - no PII at all - what developers in differing organisations chose to add is their business, quite literally.