Closed Bug 493171 Opened 15 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Implement a "fit to window width" page zoom

Categories

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

3.0 Branch
x86
Windows Vista
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 276166

People

(Reporter: alex.fdm, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

It would be nice to have a zoom option that automatically zooms the page to the width of the current window, similar to Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat Reader.

This should be easy to implement on sites that have an explicit width (like www.mozilla.com), but maybe not possible on sites that don't (like bugzilla.mozilla.org)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start Firefox on a screen with very high resolution (I use 1600x1200)
2.Open www.mozilla.com
Actual Results:  
The text is too small, and there's a lot of empty spaces on both sides of the page.

Expected Results:  
The browser should engage the zoom until just before there's the need for an horizontal scrollbar.
There is an extension for this, I believe it's Glazoom (not sure): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6489

Although not quite what you want but maybe it helps.
Version: unspecified → 3.0 Branch
This extension just adds a zoom indicator and buttons.  It is not what I suggested at all, since I still have to manually zoom the page to make it fit to the window.
(In reply to comment #2)
> since I still have to manually zoom the page to make it fit
> to the window.

I have also a high resolution (WUXGA) notebook and it is a help; it applies a predefined zoom level to all pages.
Whiteboard: DUPEME
This is a duplicate of
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276166

Perhaps after 14 months it's time to mark it as such.
I agree, please do.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Whiteboard: DUPEME
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