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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.

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.

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.