Help with Firefox.. image scaling. Turn it off?

[CyberDyneSystems]

Using Firefox 2.0.0.1

I can not for the life of me find a setting in the browser options to prevent it from automatically scaling images to a smaller size to fit the current window.

Previous versions of firefox never did this to me,. but now if I view an image larger than the current window, it simply shrinks it to fit, and I can;t turn this off.

I hate this! :lol:

Any he;p would be most certainly appreciated.

[pcasciola]

I've always had this happen with Firefox, and I am currently on 1.5.0.9.

Images larger than my browser are scaled to fit, and I have to click inside the image to flip between 100% and scaled down.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Ahh, just click the image. the problem with this "auto feature" is you may never know the image is being scaled :(
I know in IE you have to (and can) turn the feature off, but I can't find that option in this version of firefox.

I THINK I had it turned off in previous versions.. but maybe I'm dreaming that?

[pcasciola]

In 1.5.0.9 you can disable it through about:config with the browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing preference. Is that preference there in 2.0?

[Woolburr]

Mozdev tells me to go to the advanced javascript on the content tab of options and disable the resize option.

[T.D.]

Mozdev tells me to go to the advanced javascript on the content tab of options and disable the resize option.

I don't see anything about resizing images there...only windows.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Nope..
That javascript option does not effect the images.

It should be under the "View" tab,. but "Options" would do as well. It just isn't there.
Mozdev may come up with a registry tweek or start up script.

[pcasciola]

You may have to close all your browser windows first (probably obvious but worth mentioning for others who stumble across this thread).

What happened with the about:config page? All the tweak options are on there.

[pcasciola]

I just tried the about:config tweak that I posted above in 2.0 as well as 1.5 and it works fine in both.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Phil, your right, that was it. I just had to "Re-Geek" enough to remember what the heck you were talking about :lol:

For others reading, to get to these tweeks you simply type "about:config" into the browser window. then you get tons of additional settings.

Still, I find it odd that we need to "hack" to get this simple thing done.

thanks Phil!!!

[pcasciola]

Sorry, I should have been more clear about that. The about:config page in Firefox is very powerful for tweaking your settings. There are tons of options there but they are very poorly organized.

[Zepher]

I have noticed that certain forums will scale down an image automatically.
I just did the above tweak and the images are still scaled down on one of the car sites I am on.
On the offtopic and computer forums I am on, the images stay the actual size, this was before doing the tweak.
all the sites I am on use vBulletin like here, so there is probably a setting to scale images to fit into the forums width.

[pcasciola]

I just did the above tweak and the images are still scaled down on one of the car sites I am on. I believe this image sizing tweak only works if the image is not on a web page, and the URL is a direct link to the image alone.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Right, how we set our browsers can not override how the Web page is set up to display.