wesites that hide content if your window is too small any way to disable this feature

Factual Questions
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I only use 1 monitor and sometimes multitask so I often have 2 browsers each taking up half a screen. Often websites will completely hide content if the browser window is too small, (youtube comments is an example, but there are many many cases.) Is there anything I can do to make sure I can view all the content that is available to full sized browsers and scroll as necessary rather than having the website operator deciding not to show it and me possibly being unaware it even exists? I use Fixefox as my default browser.

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You are lucky you’re using firefox. It has an option in firefox to prevent sites from disabling the scroll bars (and other window features).

Either search for firefox enable scrollbars, or check out this link: Where is the scrollbar, how can I force one even when source wants it to not be there? | Firefox Support Forum | Mozilla Support

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I didn’t ask about scrollbars and your link is irrelevant.

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Adblock Plus has the ability to manually block elements. It will remember the element from one visit to another, so you won’t have to re-block until the website comes up with another annoying way to make their content hard to view.
This is a peeve of mine as well–website owners hate ad blockers, and I honestly don’t mind most ads. But I’m going to continue running this ad blocker as long as websites put huge previous/next arrows, and massive info or link banners floating at the top of the page.

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Moderator Note

Nobody really need to help you out here. It would be better not to give snippy responses if the response is not exactly what you want.

Colibri
General Questions Moderator

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Could this be a matter of changing all CSS elements marked “hidden” so that they say “scroll” instead?
I don’t know how to automatically fix CSS, but Firefox probably has a way to do it.

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What is probably controlling this is that the page has a stylesheet with @media commands in it, which explicitly say ‘show such and such content if your screen is over 1000px, show so and so content if it’s between 600 and 1000…’ and so on.

You can see the effect on this very website on new style skin - if you shrink the window below about half the computer screen width, the horizontal menu suddenly turns into a dropdown.

If you then Ctrl- , making everything in the window shrink, it will go back to ‘larger scale’ style, because you’ve fooled it into thinking you have more pixels than you really do. Tiny font may be hell on your eyes though…