# Weird message box sizes.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-message-box-sizes/109655>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [May 18, 2002, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-message-box-sizes/109655 "2002-05-18T02:18:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-message-box-sizes/109655/21 "2002-05-20T19:10:45Z")

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Well I’ll get on the horn right now and tell the people who gave me this free browser that they need to work harder! 😛

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-message-box-sizes/109655/22 "2002-05-24T03:26:45Z")

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I thought it was a setting in Vbulletin to contract long URL’s. Is it a setting in our individual control panels maybe?

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