How To: Stop Websites From Resizing Your Browser Window

If you’re tired of websites resizing your browser window, rest your weary head. In Firefox, you can disable website’s abilities to do this with Javascript:

1. Tools-> Options (Firefox -> preferences or ⌘, on OS X)
2. Select the “Content” tab.
3. Click on the “Advanced” button across from “Enable JavaScript”.
4. Uncheck the “Move or resize existing windows” checkbox.

Thanks to reddit user libertao, another one of the many bits of knowledge I’ve learned from comments on reddit.

Digg Launches Firefox 3 Toolbar

This might actually get me using digg again. We’ll see.
Install link here.

Digg Firefox 3 Extension from Kevin Rose on Vimeo.

Bizzare Firefox 3 HR Tag Rendering

I stumbled across this bizare new rendering bug in Firefox 3.

CSS:

hr {
	background: url("bar.gif") no-repeat;
	width: 385px; height: 15px;
	border: 0;
}

HTML:

<hr noshade="noshade" />

Here’s what it looks like in Firefox 2.

Now Firefox 3.

It would appear that Firefox 3 is adding a border-radius value to all <hr/> tags. Removing the noshade=”noshade” property, or adding -moz-border-radius: 0 in the css will remove the rounded edges.

Check it out.

Fix Firefox 3 URL Bar

Firefox 3 has an annoying new URL bar that takes up about 75px in screen real estate for each auto-completed URL. It’s referred to as richResults in about:config. In the previous beta releases you were able to manually add a preference to remove this feature. As of firefox 3 beta 4 (or maybe beta 3, i didn’t install that release) this no longer works for whatever reason.

If you prefer the old style urlbar, you need to install the oldbar extension. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

Firefox 3.0, How To Make Old Extensions Work

Firefox 3.0 beta 1 is out. As with previous releases of Firefox, the new version number breaks your extensions. Here’s how to fix them.

1. Open about:config (don’t mind the new roadblock)
2. Right-Click the list and create a new boolean ‘extensions.checkCompatibility’, set it to false
3. Restart Firefox

Update: This does not appear to work on the beta 4 release.