prevent window resizing in IE

been bugging me for years

[PatrickDeese]

I like to have two sizes for my browser windows - maximized and 800x600 - but for some reason my "small" window usually ends up full screen proportions eventually. I rarely resize a window manually, except to shrink it back down to 800x600, yet eventually the window always ends up at "near" maximized.

I always end up closing all my browsers, resizing one to the "right" size, then close it so that IE "remembers" the last size, and that works for a while.

What am I doing wrong - is there a registry hack I can use or something?

[claus]

As to what causes the problem, it's those big time annoying webmasters that think their webpage is allowed to change the size of your browser just because they can. I simply hate it.

As to the solution, i do it manually but i would really like to hear any advice for a permanent solution... is there a "window.resize-blocker" just like the popup-blockers that's around?

/claus

[MonkeeSage]

claus:

http*//www.popupcop.com/releasenotes.html

Never tried it but the claim to be able to stop JS window resizing.

A way to do it just from IE w/o any extra software would be to save a bookmarklet that sets you window back to the size you want it, e.g.,

javascript:window.resizeTo(800,600);

But of course you have to run this every time your window is resized. You could add a shortcut [dogboy.org] for the bookmarklet named "r" and just type "r" in the url bar every time the window size is changed.

Jordan

[PatrickDeese]

That's a great idea. What I was doing before was I took a screen shot, resized it to ~800x600, clipped out the ie toolbar and status stuff and then loaded the image in IE anytime I wanted to get the correct "footprint".

The JS seems like a much less kludgy solution.

You'd think there'd be a window size preference setting...

[sonjay]

Yet another reason to consider switching browsers. Mozilla has a preference option to allow (or disallow) scripts to move or re-size windows.

[PatrickDeese]

Ah. But I use IE so I can see what 94.3% of my websites' visitors experience.

I use Mozilla when I want to defeat some stupid "full screen mode" JS website (retch). I use Mozilla for compliance checks, also in most cases Mozilla makes interprets HTML similarly to Mac's IE and Safari. (in otherwise in doesn't interpret IE specific HTML)

[claus]

MonkeeSage:
- thanks for the tip, that does it. I've been using quicksearch for years, never thought about adding a bit of JS, but that tip just increased the value of the tool even more - great :) :)