Sites That Resize My Browser Window: You Suck!
I wish the makers of Firefox would give me, the user, control over what Web sites do to the size and position of my browser window. I was checking out HP’s new notebooks and clicking on a link suddenly made my browser window move to the centre of my screen and become 20% in size. I hate that! Why should Firefox honour code that resizes the whole window? There should be a user override function.
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June 10th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Preferences > Content > Enable JavaScript > Advanced > Uncheck “Move or resize existing windows”
This is in Firefox 3 (I don’t know if it’s in a different location in other versions), but it’s been an option in Firefox for as long as I can remember. You can also disable some other annoying behaviors from the same window.
June 10th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
That’s the same setting for Firefox 2 as well.
June 10th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Ah, nice one - thanks guys! I’ll see if that helps.