firefox and chrome show one third of screen
when I open a firefox window, only the center third of the screen shows anything. when I zoom, it acts like the center third is the only usable part and the text gets larger, bur wraps to keep in that center third.
I loaded chrome to see if that would be any different. no joy.
I have found a few sites that use the whole screen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox but it seems that all the firefox/mozilla screens are limited to the center third as is yahoo ebay is the center, amazon goes a bit wider, but still not to the edges.
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You need to use full page zoom (i.e. remove the tick: View > Zoom > [X] Zoom Text Only) to make Firefox zoom the page and not the text. Otherwise only the text is zoomed and other elements stay the same.
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yahoo, yahoo news and such show the center third, but mail stretches full screen.
not sure if that helps, just trying to give as much info as I can.
Can you give a screenshot?
here are some screen shots
What are your screen dimensions? Is that a 1920 display?
Note that a lot of web pages do not automatically adjust their content to fit on the screen by using percentages for all elements and in such a case Firefox won't fill the screen, but leave white space at the left or right and center or left align the content. You would have to zoom the pages to make it use a wider screen estate and fill the entire width.
You can use an extension to set a default font size and page zoom on web pages.
- Default FullZoom Level: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/default-fullzoom-level/
- NoSquint: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/nosquint/
Zoom does make the width a bit but it makes the text larger. the text starts to wrap.
I tried making the text larger, but that did not increase line spaces so the text started to overlap.
chrome does a lot better. the zoom does fill page more. oddly, using chrome on here, the menus for this store fill the page. the content below does not.
I am trying to find what the resolution is on my monitor. it is a 21.5" wide. Dell PC with a emachines monitor.
Chosen Solution
You need to use full page zoom (i.e. remove the tick: View > Zoom > [X] Zoom Text Only) to make Firefox zoom the page and not the text. Otherwise only the text is zoomed and other elements stay the same.