Thursday, January 15, 2009

How to resize the Firefox window with a bookmarklet

Many developers work on large screens, but want to Preview web design in a 1024×768 browser screen.
To resize the Firefox browser window to 1024 x 768 create a resizing bookmarklet.

Creating a Resizing Bookmarklet


Step 1


Right click on Bookmark Toolbar -> New Bookmark to launch the Bookmark dialog box.



Step 2


Insert the following into the box:


  • Name: Give a descriptive name if you are planning to add several bookmarklet.
  • Location: Place javascript:window.resizeTo(1024,768) into the textfield. Alter 1024 & 768 to create bookmarklet of another size.

Both Keywords and Description can be left blank.



Step 3


Test your bookmarklet, click and it should resize to it’s specific size.

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