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The title says it all. It's just really annoying when you're writing a wall of text in congregation or rmt and you can only see a minute portion of what you're writing. (awaits lock)
Also note that in Google Chrome, you can adjust the size of text boxes to your liking by dragging the double diagonal lines in the bottom right corner of the boxes.