Firefox 2 Tip: Stop Automatic Image Resizing

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Filed in: Mozilla, Tips n Tricks — October 24th, 2006

My friend, Weilian, discovered that the “Resize large images to fit in the browser windows” option has been removed in Firefox(FF) Options Window for Mozilla Firefox 2.0.

Now, FF automatically resize large image to fit screen width. My friend dislike it. He want to view images in actual size.

No problem. Here is the trick.

Enter about:config in Firefox address bar.
Enter browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing in Filter field.
You will get a single result in the bottom pane. Double click it to change to value to false
You’re done! Enjoy large images without FF disturb now!

UK-man

Thanks thats brilliant! FF were stupid to take that option away.. but problem sorted now

Martin

Thanx! Saved my day, I was really pissed not finding the damn option, no wonder when they´d removed it :)

kelly

Thanks. Now how do you prevent the browser window itself from being automatically resized by some sites. I hate it when the site decides to force my browser to be full screen, or to shrink it down so that it only shows a small image on the site.

LcF

@Kelly: goto Firefox Preferences -> Content. Click the "Advanced" button beside "Enable Javascript". Then, untick "Move or resize existing windows". Done.

Andy

Thanks for your help. But I have a different problem. When I view a picture on FF that is bigger than screen size he change my cursor into + or - so I can zoom in and out. I want to disable this function so I can see pictures in it`s actual size like I used to on previous version of FF.
Thanks!

Andy

Thanks LcF but I still don`t know how to get rid of that annoying + - cursor when I am viewing bigger size picture. I have already untick `Move or resize existing windows` and that didn`t change anything concerning this.
Thanks!

LcF

Andy: I think I got what do you mean now. You get the zoom in/out curror because you are viewing an image larger than your screen size. By default, Firefox will set a zoom out cursor so that you can fit the larger image to screen.

Well, I do not figure out how to disable it and the reason we want to disable it. It is useful, in my opinion.

Andy

Thanks LcF. It is very annoying to me so please if you hear somewhere how to disable that function let me know. :)

kelly

Andy I'm curious. If you disable that cursor, how are you doing to zoom into or out of images that are too big for the browser?

Are you sure you want to have to scroll around just to see the whole image on the large ones? If you disable that cursor, that's what you're gonna have to do.

mike apollo

wow.
awesome thanks a bunch guys, it should be this hard to disable auto image resizing

Narada

Hi. Thanks for this. It really helped. I just don't understand certain decisions that were taken in FF2. This missing feature was one of many decisions that makes me really mad.

Novaxe1

Thanks for the info, it was really annoying to have to bring the pictures back up to full size every time. Especially when reading certain online comics. no way to read the text when the picture is so small.

Another Andy

Save Images In Folder ad-on supposedly allows you to save an image by double left clicking, but with that +_ thing it doesn't work. Maybe it can't work, I don't know?

jonathan

dude, thanks so much. I was getting pretty ongry with the resizing too!

Andres

well... it worked for like.. 10 seconds... then they became resized again =( what should I do?

Wesley

Thanks for the tip! I have been trying to figure this out for way too long.

Kim

I too was hoping to find a way to disable the +- magnifying glass. and sadly the stylish extension option did not work. Any ideas?

Victor

ROFL. I had the opposite problem. I wanted to enable the feature but couldn't figure out how. I followed the info in this thread where I found the current value was true. I changed it to false and back to true, and now it behaves according to the default situation. Normally, I wouldn't want a picture shrunk unless I asked for it to be shrunk.

It's a pity the +/- feature has no granularity to it. Seems to be either pixel for pixel or reduced to fit. Better would be to press + (or something similar) to enlarge in steps or - (again, or something similar) to reduce in steps.

Garth

Thanks! Does anyone have any idea why they disabled this option from the options window? Seems weird.

LcF

@Dakota: this trick works only when you are viewing an image in the Firefox, not working on web page as the resolution is decided by the HTML code.