
Turn off the feature that automatically maximizes the web browser so that I can perpetually see my open tabs.
Like two weeks ago, Firefox was normal and kick ass as per usual. Then I realized that Firefox had changed - when you are doing stuff in a tab for a particular website that you're browsing, Firefox now does this hella annoying thing where it "maximizes" your view of the website and conceals from view your other working tabs. There used to be like an orange button that said Firefox in the top left that had a dropdown menu of commonly used features, like the download manager and bookmarks. This was all super convenient. It was bright, discernible and all of the tabs that I was working with were simultaneously viewable. Now, what happens is, if you reach to the upper portion of a tab for a website you are viewing, it "unmaximizes" the window and reveals the once concealed tabs, which is WICKED DUMB because all it does is change the orientation of the web page so that the link you were once reaching for is now outside of the trajectory of your mouse, thus causing epilepsy inducing madness of page flicker; not to mention it kills time to have to reorient your mouse because of a feature that doesn't even help anything. I personally use a computer for work, not entertainment, like the majority of porn watching freaks of nature on this thing. It should just be something you can turn off easily. Sorry to be so mad, but I thought maybe i could get used to it, and it's honestly just one of the most nauseating features on any piece of software I have ever come across. Thanks!
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It sounds like you turned on Full Screen (which has been in Firefox forever). Press F11 on your keyboard. Use Firefox in Full Screen mode
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It sounds like you turned on Full Screen (which has been in Firefox forever). Press F11 on your keyboard. Use Firefox in Full Screen mode
OMG thank you. I had just never done that in all the time I have used firefox. I mean, ish happens, I guess. Thanks for telling me how to turn it off. Now I can go back to finishing my Master's Degree [while simultaneously relocating to southern CA from NJ and taking care of my palliative, stage 4 bladder cancer ridden father] in peace (which when you're spread as thin as I am right now, you WOULD do something as dumb as hit F11 and not know how to un-hit it). Haha. Namaste!