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Resize your Firefox window with one click
Here's a neat little trick we picked up from Lifehacker. Since you can adjust a number of settings in Firefox by typing commands into the URL field, it turns out you can also adjust settings by saving those commands as bookmarks.Say you want to create a bookmark or a bookmarklet for your toolbar that will let you resize your browser window. Just right click on your toolbar and select "New Bookmark."
A window will pop up allowing you to set a name, description, and location Just enter the following into the location field " javascript:window.resizeTo(800,600);" but leave out the quotation marks.
Change the numbers to set your default resolution. Now you can easily switch between full screen and windowed mode at the click of a button. If you want to see how a website looks at different screen resolutions, you can create a series of these bookmarks.
What other Firefox settings adjustments would you automate by creating a bookmark?
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Dottore said 8:23AM on 8-25-2007
Because I often web-surf from a comfortable reclining chair, I have the monitor about 4 feet from my eyes; therefore, I like to have the font a bit bigger in the browser. I didn't want to change anything permanently since some web pages are formatted to be readable ONLY in the default font size, so each time I open a new window or tab in Firefox (and with RSS feeds I often open 5 or 6 tabs at once), I automatically click "CTRL++" each time. I would love to have a quicker way of enlarging the font.
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soniiic said 8:28AM on 8-25-2007
Dottore, go to about:config and set font.size.variable.x-western to something higher like 28 and you should always have large fonts. then it's also easy to press [Ctrl] + [-] when you want to view a site which is broken thanks to the enlarged font
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meh said 5:20AM on 8-26-2007
http://www.brianapps.net/sizer.html
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