How To Resize And Reposition Firefox Windows With A Bookmarklet

Javascript is a scripting language that is mostly used on the client side and can be really powerful. It can open a new browser window, change images as your mouse moves on them, position objects…But also resize windows!

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Photo Credit: Marcelo Terraza – Edited by Nicolo’ Canali De Rossi

In fact there are some Javascripts that can be used to resize and reposition your Firefox windows with a single click over a bookmarklet.

Editors at Hongkiat, a really good up-to-date website about technology that I always follow, have written two great articles on you to create there powerful bookmarklets in a few simple steps.

Creating a bookmarklet

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Hongkiat’s original article will show you how to simply create a bookmarklet in Firefox in three easy steps.

Resizing and repositioning bookmarklets

Hongkiat’s editors have also created a series of useful bookmarklets that you can simply drag&drop to your Firefox sidebar, and that will automatically resize and reposition your window with one click.

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Here are some examples:

And here is the full article with all the bookmarklets you can add to your sidebar.

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