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Firefox question

16 years ago

I've downloaded Firefox as my new browser(tired of problems with IE and Netscape), and here's the problem

On web pages, for instance news.yahoo, I have big blank areas to the left and right of the yahoo page, the yahoo page takes up probably 1/2 of the whole page size, with nothing on either side of it

What can I do to fix this?

TIA

kart

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bob414
16 years ago
I opened news.yahoo and saw the blank areas you describe, so I opened the page in ie and saw the same thing, opened it in opera and saw the same thing. Was it different for you before?
mikie_gw
16 years ago
Normally Yahoo sets the browser page code width 100%, used to be 88%. That news front page is set a fixed width now 793 pixels.

news.yahoo will show that width in anything a person might decide to view it with.

Probably somebody screwed up because they could put advertising there,,, wasted space doesn't cost them anything but would think they would want to capitalize on it. ... maybe sidebar advertizements will fill it up later today.
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kartwheel
Original Author
16 years ago
I double checked, in IE there's a side bar on both sides, In firefox it's twice as wide on both sides.

So you all think it's yahoo, not firefox, right?
Mo
16 years ago
Is your screen resolution set to 1024x768? If so, that might be why the page doesn't fill the screen. If you change the resolution to 800x600 the page is filled, but other sites might not display properly, and you'll have to scroll side to side.
kartwheel
Original Author
16 years ago
i'll give that a try. Thanks!

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