288216 - Screen resolution display problem in firefox

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 288214

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kris Silver]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2

On increasingly commom widescreen monitors at resolution sizes 1280x800 and
1440x900 pixels, Firefox does not size the main windows, web page size, text
proportionate to the pixel size correctly.

At these sizes all programs including IE display pages preportionate to
resolution size.  So moving up from 1024x768 to 1280x900, programs including IE
 full the screen and the text, images etc is all proportionate, and larger. In
firefox, most web pages including Mozilla.org display the page basically the
same as 1024x768 pixels.  The page is not filled left and right.  So there is a
border of white nothing in most pages.  Also, the postitioning of pages is not
correct.  It doesnt centre pages as in IE, which should be and are normally
centred at screen resolution 1024x768.  Pages are instead left aligned more
often then not.  So not only is text not proportionate to the screen size, and
larger text etc being used, an inch or two of the page is simply not being used.
 This obviously results in wasted page space, and more strenious on the eyes
compared to IE which changes the ration correctly.  It makes websites too look
very bad.  

The only way to get over this issue is to make the overall font size for the
browser larger, say 20, 22 comes similar to how ie and other browsers show pages
at these sizes anyway.  This obviously is far from suitable, most would not
realise this, and perhaps even return to IE.  This makes text larger, but still
makes pages display incorrectly.  So lines are missed, words dropped.  In
installers the text is far too large often, sometimes you cant fill in text
boxes properly, scroll around them, and pages need scrolling that shouldnt.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Change screen resolution larger than 1024x768
2. change to 1280x800 or 1440x900, available primarily on increasingly common
widescreen monitors
3. View 9/10 websites, notice page not filled, size etc not proportionate to the
change as in other browsers

Actual Results:  
Pages not sized proportionately to the size change.  Pages in same text,
overally size (not larger as should) centred pages are instead left aligned,
leaving a white border of nothing on the right. This is obviously a serious
problem.  It is more strenous on the eyes, wastes screen space that should be
used, makes web sites look terrible and does not align, size them as they should
be (and are in other browsers).

Expected Results:  
Size pages proportionate to screen size.  Larger text and overall sizes.  Page
fills the screen, not left, right, or centred leaving wasted space that is used
at 1024x768 in firefox, and as this size in other browsers.

Comment 1

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 288214 ***