Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Mozilla, How-Tos
Fight Firefox resizing with four simple steps
by Grant Robertson Mar 23rd 2007 at 6:00PM
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Twist said 6:30PM on 3-23-2007
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).
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MartinZ said 7:21PM on 3-23-2007
Great!!
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Daz said 7:26PM on 3-23-2007
Twist: Uncheck 'Always show the tab bar' ?
Works for me on Windows
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racco said 7:58PM on 3-23-2007
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
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Isabelle Carreau said 9:19PM on 3-23-2007
Many thanks for the tip :D
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StephenS said 10:06PM on 3-23-2007
Oh yeah! This one has bugged me for awhile. And the solution is so simple! Thanks!
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dogcacher said 9:47AM on 3-24-2007
Tools - Preferences?
Where's that?
Tools - Options
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Chillywilly said 10:51AM on 3-24-2007
Yeah he's right. It's Tools - Options - Content (in Windows)
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Kevin said 10:52AM on 3-26-2007
Twist...it's command + shift + w now...
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saul said 6:37PM on 4-06-2007
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.
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Chris Taylor said 2:21PM on 5-07-2007
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 :-)
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