Keep Your Grubby Hands Off My Browser
Why do sites force my browser window to resize? It a sure fire way to guarantee that I will not look at another page on that site.
Seems hard to believe that people can’t design a site that works within any browser window. I work on a laptop with 1900×1200 resolution. Do you think I’ve ever maxmized my browser window? NO. So who got the ridiculous notion that I want them to do it for me?
Does anyone really enjoy having their browser hijacked? Is resizing a window any better than popups? Actually, I think its worse. Popups can easily be prevented and at the least easily closed. When my window gets resized I have to manually drag it back in place.
Honestly, has anyone ever visited a site, watched their browser window get resized and not been pissed off? Obviously from this post the answer for me is a definite no.
Comments
9. September 2005
Yeah, that is annoying! Which browser do you use, btw? In Firefox there is an “Advanced…” setting under “Options->Content->Enable Javascript”. Disable “Move or resize existing windows”. Actually I think it’s disabled by default. I’m using the FF1.5 beta1, which is stable, although some extensions get disabled until they are updated by their authors.
9. September 2005
Hey! Thanks Thomas! I’m running an older nightly build of Firefox but was able to accomplish the same thing by going to Options->Content->Enable Javascript->but disable common annoyances.
And a common annoyance this surely was. A quick check of the annoying site I hit this morning proved that this indeed did the trick.
13. September 2005
Yeah, you can turn that off in Safari, too. I allow most javascript, but I turn off “resize” and “bring window to front”. I’ll look at it at the size I want and when I want, goddamnit!
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