The new Yahoo mail and at least one other place, corpus.byu.edu, give me a message that my screen resolution is 981x785 but if I do start>control panel>display>settings it says my display is 1280X1024. (XP, Firefox 3.6x, old Dell)
My Yahoo mail is really out of kilter vertically in some places. . Some other sites are noticeably off e.g. some boxes on wundergound and imdb have the bottoms cut off.
What do you think could fix these.?
PS - Just checked and the emil looks ok with IE. It must be a Firfox problem?
Perhaps you are mixing the actually hardware screen resolution vs the browser window size, or even what Yahoo is interpreting your screen resolution. Try using a freeware tool such as Speccy to find out the actual hardware screen resolution of your monitor. Right now my computer is connected to two 19" monitors so Speccy reports out three different resolutions:
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[li]ThinkPad Display 1680x1050 on NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M[/li][li]Current Resolution 2560x1024 pixels[/li][li]Work Resolution 2560x994 pixels[/li][/ul]
IE and FF are different browsers from different manufacturers with different settings and support for standards. You may be comparing fish and bicycles.
Start with your own hardware screen resolution and go from there.
They’re probably telling you your browser’s effective resolution, which takes zoom into account. The only solutions are to zoom out, not patronize places with such horrible web design, or hack it yourself where it will work.
If I were you, I’d go with option one. Since you are using Firefox, you can download NoSquint, which will let you change the magnification settings on a per site basis. That way you can keep the higher zoom on sites that support it.
(NoSquint is the reason I can’t use any other browser. Chrome doesn’t even match it, with or without addons.)