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Fight Firefox resizing with four simple steps
Hate it when websites take it on themselves to resize your browser window? We do. Here are four simple steps to make sure that these Webdev control freaks never resize your Firefox window again:Windows:
- Click "Tools", then "Preferences"
- Select the "Content" tab
- To the right of "Enable Javascript" click "Advanced"
- Uncheck the box next to "Move or Resize Existing Windows"
OS X and Linux :
- Click "Edit", then "Preferences"
- Select the "Content" tab
- To the right of "Enable Javascript" click "Advanced"
- Uncheck the box next to "Move or Resize Existing Windows"
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Subscribe to commentsTwistMar 23rd 2007 6:30PM
Now if there was just an option to revert back to the Safari style command+w behavior that the Mac 2.0.0.1 version had (i.e when you hit command+w with only one open tab it closed the window instead of leaving you with a blank window).
MartinZMar 23rd 2007 7:21PM
Great!!
DazMar 23rd 2007 7:26PM
Twist: Uncheck 'Always show the tab bar' ?
Works for me on Windows
raccoMar 23rd 2007 7:58PM
thanks for the tip, I was just moaning about a site that insisted on making everything full screen only an hour ago.
but. .
I think you'll find that in OS X you click "FireFox" to get to Preferences
Isabelle CarreauMar 23rd 2007 9:19PM
Many thanks for the tip :D
StephenSMar 23rd 2007 10:06PM
Oh yeah! This one has bugged me for awhile. And the solution is so simple! Thanks!
dogcacherMar 24th 2007 9:47AM
Tools - Preferences?
Where's that?
Tools - Options
ChillywillyMar 24th 2007 10:51AM
Yeah he's right. It's Tools - Options - Content (in Windows)
KevinMar 26th 2007 10:52AM
Twist...it's command + shift + w now...
saulApr 6th 2007 6:37PM
Thanks a bunch.
What would possess someone to want to bug people who happen to come to their website? Resizing someone's browser window is kind of like an artist standing in a museum and spitting on anyone who looks at their work.
Chris TaylorMay 7th 2007 2:21PM
No actually its more akin to the artist selecting the size of the canvas to work on and is perfectly understandable for them to want to resize your window BUT its a FLAWED understanding. You see while an artists can choose there canvas I AM THE ONE WHO CHOOSES the canvas when I view there site IE I select a monitor, SCREEN Resolution, and BROWSER dimensions. IE this is an artist DRAWING on "MY" canvas - they need to understand this :-)
SO anyone know how to DISABLE "preventing" resizing? ie when something opens a new window and it somehow disables my ability to manually change the size of the window? I REALLY hate that :-)