Magnified home screen

My wife is still using the Mozilla and one day her opening page would not fit in the screen, although all the other web pages appear in the correct size. I remember reading how to magnify your screen and thought that she accidentally did that without realizing it. How do you increase the size of the screen? Do you hold down some control button with one of the mouse buttons depressed?

 

Hi Bob,

Believe it or not, this same subject came up the day before yesterday in the XP forum. Read through this thread and see which answer works best for you. Or, I may have mis-read your post ... is the window larger or smaller than it should be?

 

The window is too large to fit in the monitor. Strange that someone else should have this problem now!

 

Hi Bob,

I did misunderstand your post, as the problem in the other thread had to do with windows that are slightly smaller than they should be. If you can't get to the titlebar so you can drag it down to where you can see the Minimize, Maximize/Restore, and Close buttons in the upper right corner, right-click on the Mozilla Taskbar icon and select "Restore ". If that doesn't work, try "Maximize ".

When you get the window to a size where you can see all of it, drag it to the upper left corner of the screen, then use the "drag" widget in the lower right corner to bring the bottom to the Taskbar and the right edge to the right side of the screen.

Then, hold the Ctrl key while clicking the Close button. When you reopen Mozilla, the window should be the right size.

 

ackerberg,

Your wife may have clicked on F11 in error. That is how you enlarge the screen to eliminate everything but the content. It can be disabled by clicking F11 again.

 

Hi Ramona,

Is that applicable only to browser windows? On my system, pressing F11 doesn't do anything in a Windows Explorer or a Thunderbird window, and it seems to work inconsistently in a Firefox window. It toggles the Titlebar all the time, but the Navigation toolbar and the Tabbar always remain in view. It sometimes toggles the Statusbar and sometimes the Taskbar, depending on whether or not the Taskbar is locked.

Addendum: Pressing F11 in IE7 doesn't do anything, but in Maxthon2, an IE shell, it toggles everything but the Tabbar.

 

I believe ackerberg is talking about Mozilla, which F11 does enlarge the window, with only one toolbar showing.

 

I know Bob is talking about Mozilla, but I was asking a more general question, about whether F11 is browser-related. Judging from a Google search I just conducted, it seems to be. I found numerous references to its use with Windows Explorer but, on my system, with IE7, it does nothing.

 

Thank you. I will try F11 a little later when she is home. AT&T which is the homepage that is too big just changed their homepage about 2 weeks ago which is when she noticed the problem. I thought maybe AT&T was using something new that Mozilla couldn't handle, but we will see.

 

I don't know how much help we can be if login is needed. I tried this link , and it looks ok in Seamonkey1.0.8.
Is the homepage accessible without logging in?

 

Bob,

If the ATT Home Page: http://www.att.net/ is taking up more than the full screen, then I don't believe that the F11 is the problem. When I viewed the page in Netscape 7.2, which is based on Moz Code, all the F11, or View | Full Screen did, was remove all but one Toolbar at the top of the page.

Could it be that she increased the fonts, in "View "? When I did so, then it was necessary to use the left to right scroll bar...

 

I don't think it could be changed font size, as Bob said, in his first post:

"...one day her opening page would not fit in the screen, although all the other web pages appear in the correct size. "​

Still, when I access the webpage from Ramona's link with FF, I get both horizontal and vertical scrollbars. I'm using a screen resolution of 1280x1024, and all of my FF fonts are set at 16.

Also, judging from what I see when I access the ATT page with IE7, the page will not display properly using FF ... therefore, probably not with any Gecko browser. See the screenshots ... the one on the left is an IE screen, the one on the right, FF.

 

OK, F11 did not work. Jim, that picture on the right is exactly what she sees and that is from FF? The one on the left is from IE?
She said that if she reduced the image by so many percent and decreased the font size it appears normal.
The problem is the new home page that AT&T has introduced. I called them on the phone and they said they did not support Mozilla or Firefox. That means that when they developed the new homepage, no one bothered or cared to view the new page in Mozilla or Firefox - in other words they didn't give a **** how it looked or even if it worked! Nice people, huh!

 

Hi Bob,

That's correct ... the screenshot on the left is of IE7, that on the right is FF 2.0.0.2.

Unfortunately, AT&T's is not the only website that's IE-specific but, you'd think that if they want people to use it as a portal, they'd make it cross-browser compatible.

The developers of the IE Tab extension say it will work with Mozilla Firefox 1.5-3.0 and SeaMonkey 1.0-1.5, so I don't know if it will work with Mozilla. You might give it a try, though, as one of its options is to always open a particular page in IE (or another browser). See the screenshot.

 

I think we all should send them an email asking them for cross browser support. Shame on AT&T, and I am amazed at their calloused attitude, as they did support Netscape in the past, especially in their Newsgroups...