# Your browser window size?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 20, 2015, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060 "2015-11-20T08:37:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060/1 "2015-11-20T08:37:37Z")
I have a 22" monitor. I do NOT maximize my browser window. I like to have easier access to the shortcuts on the left side of the desktop. And I often have a WMP window open playing a video, so I use a reduced size browser window.
What do you use? 😕
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### Author:  [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060/2 "2015-11-20T08:49:22Z")
Why are you confused? People like what they like. Some people have 30 tabs open all the time. I close mine as I go and use history if I need to go back to something. Everyone browses differently and for different reasons. Videos for me mostly come from the browser so they’ll just be in a tab unless I break another window out, and I prefer to keep attention on the video so will usually maximize that while I’m watching it, too. But that’s me and my preferences are different.
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### Author:  [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060/3 "2015-11-20T09:29:52Z")
My monitor is 14" and I always maximize the browser. Old computer, I can’t play online videos anymore and can’t open more than 10 tabs or so at a time.
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### Author:  [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060/4 "2015-11-20T09:58:49Z")
I use a reduced size browser window. My eyes get sore if I have to do a lot of left to right movement, so especially for sites like this, that use the full width of the browser window, I prefer to reduce the window size and have the text wrap.
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### Author:  [@danthemanx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danthemanx)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060/5 "2015-11-20T10:51:37Z")
I have a 24’’ monitor , I don’t to minimized unless I am doing some photoshop and watching a movie at the same time I like the viewing space
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060/6 "2015-11-20T12:49:47Z")
I always maximize my browser window. My tower pc’s at home and work have dual monitors. The browser is open on one of them. Even on my laptop the browser is full screen.
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060/7 "2015-11-20T12:52:45Z")
I have two 27" monitors.
I keep my browser windows at about 75% of the width of one monitor.
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060/8 "2015-11-20T13:09:38Z")
Maximized - but then, I’m also a dual-monitor user (23")
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### Author:  [@The\_Big\_Poo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Poo)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060/9 "2015-11-20T14:18:16Z")
My laptop has a 15" screen. I generally maximise windows and have 60 tabs at once, I half the screen when I want to watch something and do something else at the same time.
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060/10 "2015-11-20T14:24:35Z")
At home, I keep my browser at around 80-90% of the maximum (for access to shortcuts on the desktop, for instance) unless I’m watching a video. At work I’m always bringing other windows to the top by clicking on them (Outlook, Excel, Word, whatever) and I keep them all at around 50% of maximum.
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060/11 "2015-11-20T14:57:37Z")
I maximize mine. Seems weird not to but that’s probably me being old and imprinted with memories of 12" screens where you needed it maximized to see what the heck you were reading anyway.
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060/12 "2015-11-20T15:10:03Z")
I rarely maximize anything. Slide shows and movies, that’s about it. OK, large spreadsheets sometimes, I guess.
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### Author:  [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060/13 "2015-11-20T15:15:22Z")
I always maximize the window unless I need two windows open to compare or something.
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### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060/14 "2015-11-20T15:20:39Z")
Always maximized. If I’m doing anything else at the same time all it takes is a simple click on the shortcut in the taskbar to open that program.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060/15 "2015-11-20T15:55:17Z")
I have my music running in the background, and leave a space on the left (Media Go from Sony) so that I can see what is playing and even read the lyrics.
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### Author:  [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060/16 "2015-11-20T16:25:20Z")
No need to maximize the browser. At work I have a pair of 30" monitors and at home it is a single 24’ monitor.
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060/17 "2015-11-20T17:06:20Z")
I keep mine at 6 inches by 9 inches. I like the evenness of it.
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### Author:  [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060/18 "2015-11-20T19:39:01Z")
Dual monitors but browser windows I keep with 1/8 inch all around. Old habit/preference from needing max size on small monitors but easy to grab & slide over. I still do that a lot for various things.
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### Author:  [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060/19 "2015-11-20T20:48:49Z")
I maximize, and then make the text substantially bigger than normal. If I put a Word document at 100% next to my browser window, the text in my browser right now is equivalent to 24-pt font. If only I could do the same in every application. My eyes are not what they used to be.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-browser-window-size/738060/20 "2015-11-20T23:17:45Z")
Nobody, has mentioned Alt-Tab yet?
You guys and ladies are slipping.
Alt-Tab is all you need to open windows hidden behind your browser or windows that you sent to the task bar. Alt-Tab also lets you select the desktop. Full screen windows are never a problem when you use Alt-Tab
Window key- E opens file explorer
Window Key - R opens the run box
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