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Firefox 2 Tip: Stop Automatic Image Resizing
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:configin Firefox address bar. - Enter
browser.enable_automatic_image_resizingin 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!
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November 9th, 2006 at 1:36 am
Thanks thats brilliant! FF were stupid to take that option away.. but problem sorted now
November 9th, 2006 at 3:58 am
@UK-man: glad that it is helpful to you
November 10th, 2006 at 4:11 am
Agree with UK man. and thanks
November 12th, 2006 at 1:54 pm
I’m looking for it. thanks for the save.
November 24th, 2006 at 11:11 pm
Thank you!
Regards from Brazil…
November 25th, 2006 at 7:43 am
Thanx! Saved my day, I was really pissed not finding the damn option, no wonder when they´d removed it
November 29th, 2006 at 7:40 am
December 4th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
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.
December 5th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
@Kelly: goto Firefox Preferences -> Content. Click the “Advanced” button beside “Enable Javascript”. Then, untick “Move or resize existing windows”. Done.
December 12th, 2006 at 2:53 am
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!
December 12th, 2006 at 3:10 am
@Andy: yes, use this tip too.
December 12th, 2006 at 8:36 pm
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!
December 12th, 2006 at 11:53 pm
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.
December 14th, 2006 at 8:07 am
Thanks LcF. It is very annoying to me so please if you hear somewhere how to disable that function let me know.
December 14th, 2006 at 9:10 am
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.
December 14th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
wow.
awesome thanks a bunch guys, it should be this hard to disable auto image resizing
January 1st, 2007 at 4:37 am
Very nice.
I knew one could manually edit the FF configurations, but I could not remember exactly what to type in the address bar to do so.
In any case, I too found the automatic image resizing very annoying and your blog happens to be the first that came up with what I was Googling for. Congrats!
January 2nd, 2007 at 9:32 am
Just wanted to say, “Thanks!” too.
January 7th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
FINALLY! Thanks a lot, man.
January 8th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
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.
January 17th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
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.
January 20th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Thank you!
January 25th, 2007 at 11:26 am
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?
May 12th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
dude, thanks so much. I was getting pretty ongry with the resizing too!
September 30th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
@ 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)
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:30 am
well… it worked for like.. 10 seconds… then they became resized again =( what should I do?
October 20th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Thanks for the tip! I have been trying to figure this out for way too long.
January 26th, 2008 at 12:36 am
I too was hoping to find a way to disable the +- magnifying glass. and sadly the stylish extension option did not work. Any ideas?
February 13th, 2008 at 7:58 am
OMG I think I love you!!
I have been so annoyed by this shrinking crap.
February 28th, 2008 at 2:04 am
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.
March 8th, 2008 at 4:45 am
Thanks! Does anyone have any idea why they disabled this option from the options window? Seems weird.
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:15 am
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.
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:49 pm
@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.
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:09 am
Alright, I understand now. But is there anyway to fix my problem?
April 4th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
@Dakota: there is no real solution. It is webmaster’s problem. You can get a BIGGER monitor to avoid the problem though…
April 4th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Again, thank you for your help. Guess I’ll be investing in a new 19″.
September 1st, 2008 at 11:06 am
Thanks for your efforts. Write a good answer once, many benefit. You’ve done your good turn for the day, scout!
September 11th, 2008 at 10:03 am
I would also like to get rid of the re-size cursor permanently. I will appreciate your suggestion.