Browser window resizing

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matthijs
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Browser window resizing

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Argh, why do browsers still have the "functionality" to allow a website to resize the browser window? :banghead:

I have a large monitor, every screen I have opened on the right spot and with the right size. And then comes a stupid website maximizing or resizing my Firefox window. We are at version 3 already, why don't they strip that functionality? or at least allow me to prevent it from happening?

Of course, *ugh* webmasters who make websites like that should be put in a retraining program for a job far far away from a computer immediately.
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Re: Browser window resizing

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In firefox you can disable resizing of the window... Go to preferences->content->javascript->advanced and disallow this.

And the reason for allowing resizing a window is that for a popup the size can be important... although more and more web sites use tickboxex instead of real windows for popups
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Re: Browser window resizing

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although more and more web sites use tickboxex instead of real windows for popups
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Re: Browser window resizing

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Generally a layer (div) that's look like a popup
And I was referring to jQuery's thickbox
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Re: Browser window resizing

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Darhazer wrote:In firefox you can disable resizing of the window... Go to preferences->content->javascript->advanced and disallow this.

And the reason for allowing resizing a window is that for a popup the size can be important... although more and more web sites use tickboxex instead of real windows for popups
Aha thanks for the tip!

Indeed more and more you see the thickbox like popups. I don't mind if those are used for photo gallery popups and things like that.
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