When I click on a link from a message, a new window opens (like always – I’m not beefing about that). But – and this is the strange thing – it now opens a very small window (about 1/6th the size of my screen) floating somewhere in the upper right. The new window used to be the same size as the old one, which, in may case, is maximized. The change seems to have taken place this week.
This is probably something to do with my own Preferences, but I haven’t been able to find a way to fix it. I’m on a Win95 box, running Netscape 4.75 (yeah, I’m gonna upgrade real soon now…)
Any thoughts? I’d like to think this is an actual Board Glitch, but being able to fix it on my end would be just fine.
A question. Does this happen only from the SDMB, or at other sites, too?
I don’t know about Netscape, but Internet Explorer saves the window size when you close down IE.
For example, if you have your window set at 50% of the screen size when you close IE, the next time you open IE it will open at that size. The same holds true for any secondary windows that you have open when you shut down the program.
Seems to now be happening whenever I open a new window (even with CNTR-N). I just upgraded to Netscape 6, and it’s still doing it, which means there must be some preference set somewhere. All the windows open as exactly the same size and in the same place, which would be nice if it were the way I wanted it.
I always maximize windows, so I don’t know where Netscape is getting the info it seems to be defaulting to. It is a puzzlement.
I just tried a few other random vB boards (boy, most of them sure are lame, aren’t they?), and they open windows the same way as well.
Hmmm. This sounds like a problem specific to your computer and since I know nothing about Netscape, I’m afraid I can’t help ya. Sorry 'bout that.
The advice above is partially right.
When you close the browser it saves two window sizes.
One is the Initial Window Size, and one is the New Window Size.
The 1/6th size is usually an ad secretely opened in the background.
Doubleclick ad service is a major culprit, and Straight Dope used to use them. Other sites also use them. For me it’s ZapTV.com, the TV listing service, which pops up a tiny pay channel ad.
To avoid the problem- When you first log on, before you do anything else type Ctrl-N. This clones your Initial Window into a New Window, setting the New Window size the same as your main one. From then on you’re ok until a tiny ad appears again. When they appear type Alt-F4 or click the X box to close them.
If they aren’t the last New Window of the session their size won’t be remembered when you shut down.