Firefox, fit to width?

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In Opera I can choose to have web pages "fit to width" which is very
helpful when working at different resolutions. Can firefox do this? I
can't find a similar setting, if not is there a plugin that will allow
firefox to do this?

Thanks, Mark
 
In Opera I can choose to have web pages "fit to width" which is
very helpful when working at different resolutions. Can firefox
do this? I can't find a similar setting, if not is there a plugin
that will allow firefox to do this?
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IME, Opera's 'fit to width' doesn't work terribly well. There are
too many ways for pages to restrict width.

For quick fixes with Firefox, the Aardvark extension has a
'de-widthify' function. <http://karmatics.com/aardvark/>

For pages that you use a lot, you could use user stylesheets to change
the pages' appearance, if you know some css. This approach works well
only with pages that are already using css for layout. The Stylish
extension makes managing user css a lot easier. The website has a lot
of ready-to-use stylesheets as well. <http://userstyles.org/stylish/>

Using Platypus and Greasemonkey, you can create scripts to modify
pages' appearance and have them applied each time you visit the page or
site. Platypus' 'relax' function gets rid of widths. This approach is
similar to Aadvark's, but more permanent.
<http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/>
<http://platypus.mozdev.org/

And there are ready-to-use Greasemonkey scripts at
<http://userscripts.org/>, but I'm having trouble connecting to that
site right now.
 
arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. . . the pain. . . the agony. . .
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Really? I liked it. But then, see .sig.


Chak


--
English is a brawling, promiscuous drunkard of a language made up of
mispronounced and stolen words from other languages, and that's what
makes it such a glory to speak. Usage pecksniffs who try to tell you that
colorful, unambiguous, expressive turns of phrase or sentence structure
are incorrect are the worst kind of bores.
--Cory Doctorow, posted to BoingBoing.net
 
For quick fixes with Firefox, the Aardvark extension has a
'de-widthify' function. <http://karmatics.com/aardvark/>
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Bummer, I'd use Firefox more if it filled my widescreen, like Opera does
for sites like betanews.com and others that only fill the center of my
screen, Opera lets me fill the whole screen. Sigh, guess I'll have to wait
for such an extension.

Thanks, Mark
 
Kram said:
Bummer, I'd use Firefox more if it filled my widescreen, like Opera does
for sites like betanews.com and others that only fill the center of my
screen, Opera lets me fill the whole screen. Sigh, guess I'll have to wait
for such an extension.
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If you download the GreaseMonkey extension for Firefox, and also the Platypus
extension, you can use Platypus to change web sites in a variety of ways.
In your example, I went to Betanews.com and used Platypus's "Relax" option
to make Betanews.com fill the width of Firefox. This setting was then saved
as a GreaseMonkey script so that whenever I go back to Betanews.com, it
automatically fills Firefox's width with no further work on my part. :)
 
Really? I liked it. But then, see .sig.
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English is a brawling, promiscuous drunkard of a language made up of
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mispronounced and stolen words from other languages, and that's what
makes it such a glory to speak. Usage pecksniffs who try to tell you that
colorful, unambiguous, expressive turns of phrase or sentence structure
are incorrect are the worst kind of bores.
--Cory Doctorow, posted to BoingBoing.net

Yahbut. . . IMO *some* made up words shouldn't have been. . . ;)

my favorite quote re such stuff:
http://www.gallowglass.org/jadwiga/quotes.html
"English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark
alleys, knocks them over and rummages through their pockets for loose
grammar. -- Unknown"

:)

Susan
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Bummer, I'd use Firefox more if it filled my widescreen, like
Opera does for sites like betanews.com and others that only fill
the center of my screen, Opera lets me fill the whole screen.
Sigh, guess I'll have to wait for such an extension.
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How are you doing this with Opera? When I try the 'fit to width' in
Opera 9, the betanews content remains fixed at 748px wide.
 
mispronounced and stolen words from other languages, and that's
what makes it such a glory to speak. Usage pecksniffs who try to
tell you that colorful, unambiguous, expressive turns of phrase or
sentence structure are incorrect are the worst kind of bores.
--Cory Doctorow, posted to BoingBoing.net

Yahbut. . . IMO *some* made up words shouldn't have been. . .
;)
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At least the Aardvark folks mitigated it by putting it in quotes. I
think they were running out of letters for the functions. W widens
the selection. Platypus uses R for 'relax', but in Aardvark R is
for 'remove'. Anyway, I don't think 'de-widthify' is likely to make
it's way into wider usage. But now you'll think of it whenever
questions about whether to add columns to pricelesswarehome.org
tables come up. ;)
 
my favorite quote re such stuff:
http://www.gallowglass.org/jadwiga/quotes.html
"English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark
alleys, knocks them over and rummages through their pockets for loose
grammar. -- Unknown"
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LOL! Very nice.

Chak

--
English is a brawling, promiscuous drunkard of a language made up of
mispronounced and stolen words from other languages, and that's what
makes it such a glory to speak. Usage pecksniffs who try to tell you that
colorful, unambiguous, expressive turns of phrase or sentence structure
are incorrect are the worst kind of bores.
--Cory Doctorow, posted to BoingBoing.net
 
Susan said:
[SNIP]

my favorite quote re such stuff:
http://www.gallowglass.org/jadwiga/quotes.html
"English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark
alleys, knocks them over and rummages through their pockets for loose
grammar. -- Unknown"
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Hardly "unknown", 'tis James Nicoll, let's see if I can use wikipedia...
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Nicoll>: "The problem with defending
the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a
cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has
pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and
rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

Cheers,
Gary B-)
 
Gary said:
Susan said:
[SNIP]

my favorite quote re such stuff:
http://www.gallowglass.org/jadwiga/quotes.html
"English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down
dark alleys, knocks them over and rummages through their pockets for
loose grammar. -- Unknown"
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Hardly "unknown", 'tis James Nicoll, let's see if I can use wikipedia...
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Nicoll>:
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<snip>

Sure enough. Thanks for the attribution. :) The original was posted on
May 15, 1990:
<http://groups.google.com/group/rec....670ca97d6?q=g:thl3676756607d&hl=en&lr=lang_en>

<q>
The problem with defending the purity of the English language
is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't
just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages
down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for
new vocabulary. I have a friend who has a wonderful tirade about
the incorrectness of trying to
1: Map Latin grammar onto English
He's an English teacher, BTW. I don't think he's likely to win
mass coverts, alas.
</q>

Some "searching for the author of the quote" web pages:
http://scribo.blogs.com/scribo/2004/06/language_thugs.html
http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-499.html

from the second page:

"If I had only known that was going to be my fifteen
minutes of fame, I'd have run that sucker through a spell checker and
taken more care while writing the surrounding material."
--James Nicoll

:)

Susan
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»Q« said:
At least the Aardvark folks mitigated it by putting it in quotes. I
think they were running out of letters for the functions. W widens
the selection. Platypus uses R for 'relax', but in Aardvark R is
for 'remove'. Anyway, I don't think 'de-widthify' is likely to make
it's way into wider usage. But now you'll think of it whenever
questions about whether to add columns to pricelesswarehome.org
tables come up. ;)
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CRS syndrome is sometimes a blessing. ;)

Susan
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