Stumble and Firefox … tired of resizing windows? Here is the Fix
By MoreMerchant on Dec 17, 2007 in Blogging, Featured, Firefox, Tools, stumble
If you Stumble a lot like I do you are probably really tired of all the sites that resize the window. It was driving my freaking crazy until I took about 5 minutes into searching for the answer.
So all you Firefox Stumblers here is the quick fix.
1. Under options on the Toolbar, select the Content Tab.
2. Click the advanced button next to Enable Javascript in the top box.
3. Uncheck the ‘Move or resize existing windows’ box.
There you have it. now your windows won’t automatically resize and drive you to the brink of slitting your wrists. With this Firefox / Stumble request I hope to save so many people from ending it all.
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Iantrepreneur | Dec 17, 2007 | Reply
holy crap - nice! I am a fellow stumbler and this is how I find cool new sites! nice post!
MoreMerchant | Dec 17, 2007 | Reply
Thanks Ian. This tip that I learned recently has been awesome. I was so tired of sites that resized the Windows.
Fawn | Dec 17, 2007 | Reply
Thank you, thank you, thank you! It was driving me nuts!
Jess | Dec 17, 2007 | Reply
I think I love you.
bitty | Dec 17, 2007 | Reply
thanks super alot
Caren | Dec 17, 2007 | Reply
Like Jess said,
I think I love you.
How could something so simple be so hidden?
Jacob | Dec 17, 2007 | Reply
Thank you!
david | Dec 17, 2007 | Reply
Great! Thanks, I saw it as an annoyance but It has not bothered me much i guess. A great thing to stumble upon. Thanks for the post.
Your World Gallery | Dec 17, 2007 | Reply
Nice post and great site. I sure am glad I subscribed to your feed.
Edsel | Dec 17, 2007 | Reply
THANK YOU!
lucas | Dec 17, 2007 | Reply
freakin awesome thanks…..
Max | Dec 17, 2007 | Reply
you are awesome.
Thank you.
vince johnson | Dec 17, 2007 | Reply
THANK GOD! I even bought the latest OSX to get rid of the shrink problem. Cost $130 bucks. Didn’t work. Now if I could figure out how to make MAC’s mail program work my life would be nearly bearable.
Vince
alex | Dec 17, 2007 | Reply
good thing this doesn’t happen in IE7
Wesa | Dec 17, 2007 | Reply
Ah, you’re a life saver! Thanks so much! <3
midomssh | Dec 17, 2007 | Reply
thank you i am working on it now
Dale | Dec 17, 2007 | Reply
Nice tip as always
Dale
MoreMerchant | Dec 17, 2007 | Reply
Glad I could help. Any other tips from anyone?
ian | Dec 18, 2007 | Reply
thank you for share
Glynes | Dec 18, 2007 | Reply
A thousand thanks!! I’m sure I could’ve figured it out if I wasn’t so lazy. I appreciate you doing the work for us!
Hyrum | Dec 18, 2007 | Reply
All helpful things to know.
Kaleb | Dec 18, 2007 | Reply
OMG! Thank you sooooo much!!!
Stephen Rees | Dec 18, 2007 | Reply
>Under options on the Toolbar, select the Content Tab.
There are no options in my toolbar so I can’t find a content tab - I am using Firefox 2
MoreMerchant | Dec 18, 2007 | Reply
Goto Tools, then Options.
sexy & funny DuDe | Dec 19, 2007 | Reply
Wow, I didn’t even know this could be solved. Thanks man, you saved me from ranting while Stumbling around.
Edi | Dec 19, 2007 | Reply
From the comments I see that your post was very helpful to us stumble upon users. I sure wish I could read it, black and dark gray on black, I just gave up.
JeSTeR | Dec 19, 2007 | Reply
Great tip, but I’d suggest stumblers use the NoScript addon for Firefox. It’s pretty dangerous what a site could do to your machine running javascript unchecked. If it can resize your window, imagine what else could be done.
Jack Vermicelli | Dec 19, 2007 | Reply
Why would anyone not have this disabled in the first place, StumbleUpon or not?
It’s in the regular options menu, not somewhere tucked away or only accessible through the address bar.
Andrew | Dec 20, 2007 | Reply
Hmmm never have that problem and I stumble all the time. Maybe it is because I am running Firefox on a Mac and its version is programmed to prevent that.
dew | Dec 20, 2007 | Reply
Had everything in that box unchecked since I started using FireFox. I can’t stand people that have websites that resize your windows. Great tip!
z1 | Dec 20, 2007 | Reply
just get the noscript plugin and you can allow/disallow individual sites that are allowed to run Javascript.
It’s better than having to tweak the global settings all the time.
Lisa | Dec 21, 2007 | Reply
god i love posts…..you learn so much with shared knowledge.
thanks,
Lisa
JhimBhoy | Dec 22, 2007 | Reply
Thanks for that. Nice fix
Bryan | Dec 23, 2007 | Reply
Great Tip! Thanks!
kb | Dec 23, 2007 | Reply
People, don’t you ever take a look at the options if there would be anything useful in there? Rule #1: If you think something is annoying, chances are someone else thought that too and fixed it.
MoreMerchant | Dec 24, 2007 | Reply
Well looking at options or not, I am glad we could provide something that people needed.
Steve | Dec 26, 2007 | Reply
Thanks! Now, how do I keep all the graphics in FF2 from automatically enlarging about 25% so that they cover the adjoining text???
huh | Dec 27, 2007 | Reply
what are you people going on about?
never got anything resized here
and I cannot find that option either
but I guess it don’t matter
Pete_I | Dec 29, 2007 | Reply
NoScript for the win.
Chad | Jan 9, 2008 | Reply
wtf are you talking about? i never get resized windows on any machine i’ve ever stumbled on.
Josh | Jan 9, 2008 | Reply
I’ve never had the problem .. but thanks for the tip
Clarjon1 | Jan 10, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for the tip. You’re right, that had been annoying me. For future reference, for people using Firefox on Linux, the “options” dialog is Edit->Preferences.
Chronus | Jan 11, 2008 | Reply
THANK YOU!
Now I can easily navigate away from those damn shock sites.
You have saved my sanity, I think
Jason | Jan 15, 2008 | Reply
Very nice…. Excellent Post… I was going nuts too… very much appreciated.
Freeborn | Jan 17, 2008 | Reply
Long ago, I disabled most of the javascript functions that affect browser windows. I don’t like it when some idiot web designer tries messing with MY browser window.
CindyS | Feb 25, 2008 | Reply
I wonder if this will keep it from just spontaneously closing for no apparent reason. Or if anyone else has this problem.
chrismarx | Jul 22, 2008 | Reply
oh thanks the heavens