Resize your Firefox window with one click

by Brad Linder Aug 24th 2007

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?

Tags: bookmark, bookmarklet, firefox, resize

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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.

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

meh said 5:20AM on 8-26-2007

http://www.brianapps.net/sizer.html

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