Comments on: Firefox 2 Tip: Stop Automatic Image Resizing

By: Another Resize-hater

Another Resize-hater — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:03:52 +0000

I would also like to get rid of the re-size cursor permanently. I will appreciate your suggestion.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:06:37 +0000

Thanks for your efforts. Write a good answer once, many benefit. You’ve done your good turn for the day, scout!

By: Dakota

Dakota — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:06:02 +0000

Again, thank you for your help. Guess I’ll be investing in a new 19″.

By: LcF

LcF — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:02:35 +0000

@Dakota: there is no real solution. It is webmaster’s problem. You can get a BIGGER monitor to avoid the problem though…

By: Dakota

Dakota — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:09:42 +0000

Alright, I understand now. But is there anyway to fix my problem?

By: LcF

LcF — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:49:59 +0000

@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.

By: Dakota

Dakota — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:15:48 +0000

LcF, I’m having a problem with a Forum website where images that have a width larger than my monitor shrink to a window with a scroll bar. This to me is extremely annoying. I tried what you posted but the images still shrink down with a “side-to-side” scrollbar.

Here is a link of an example:
http://www.anathemaguild.dkpsystem.com/viewthread.php?threadid=1559

Last thing; I’m running in 1025×768 resolution. My monitor cannot run any higher than this. Thank you ahead of time for any help.

By: Garth

Garth — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:45:45 +0000

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

By: Victor

Victor — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:04:15 +0000

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.

By: susan

susan — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:58:39 +0000

OMG I think I love you!!
I have been so annoyed by this shrinking crap.

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:36:38 +0000

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

By: Wesley

Wesley — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:48:48 +0000

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

By: Andres

Andres — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:30:56 +0000

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

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:33:48 +0000

@ andy (tho I don’t know if you’ll see it) if you really don’t want the zoom cursor at all (meaning no easy way for fitting really big images) then paste this into the stylish extension
body > img:only-child {
width: auto !important;
height: auto !important;
cursor: auto !important;
}

and now for the praising:
oh god thank you for posting this I had it grandfathered in on my old comp somehow but when I set up my new one I found out that it was gone, I went thru several processes of getting back my beloved feature including the method above and installing the old version and updating! so thank you (wish I’d found it earlier)

By: jonathan

jonathan — Sat, 12 May 2007 09:41:07 +0000

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

By: Another Andy

Another Andy — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:26:41 +0000

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?

By: bigmindsky

bigmindsky — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 06:32:00 +0000

Thank you!

By: Novaxe1

Novaxe1 — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:48:11 +0000

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.

By: Narada

Narada — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:50:32 +0000

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.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:08:43 +0000

FINALLY! Thanks a lot, man.