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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3-23-2007 @ 6:30PM
Twist said...
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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3-23-2007 @ 7:21PM
MartinZ said...
Great!!
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3-23-2007 @ 7:26PM
Daz said...
Twist: Uncheck 'Always show the tab bar' ?
Works for me on Windows
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3-23-2007 @ 7:58PM
racco said...
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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3-23-2007 @ 9:19PM
Isabelle Carreau said...
Many thanks for the tip :D
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3-23-2007 @ 10:06PM
StephenS said...
Oh yeah! This one has bugged me for awhile. And the solution is so simple! Thanks!
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3-24-2007 @ 9:47AM
dogcacher said...
Tools - Preferences?
Where's that?
Tools - Options
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3-24-2007 @ 10:51AM
Chillywilly said...
Yeah he's right. It's Tools - Options - Content (in Windows)
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3-26-2007 @ 10:52AM
Kevin said...
Twist...it's command + shift + w now...
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4-06-2007 @ 6:37PM
saul said...
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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5-07-2007 @ 2:21PM
Chris Taylor said...
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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