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May 26, 2008Ok, so I have this 22″ widescreen flat panel superdeluxe 1680x1050 display. For someone growing up with MS-DOS and 800x600 SVGA, that’s a lot of screen real estate.
So why do people insist on maximising Firefox when they sit behind my computer? It kind of makes me think of that thing that I have where when I touch one cheek, I have this uncontrollable urge to touch the other one too.
The difference is that I have a perfectly reasonable explanation for my behaviour and I’m sure I’ll find it one of these days.
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You know, the funny thing, when I opened firefox about 30 seconds ago to get online, I had to unmaximize it because my girlfriend was the last one on my system, she does that exact same thing. Everything has to be full screen.
I’ve got an HP 20″ 1680x1050.
Comment by John S. — May 26, 2008 @ 7:50 pm
Nice monitor!
Maybe because people don’t like to be distracted and like to concentrate on one thing only. You usually have unmaximized windows when you are dragging and dropping, or having to view different sources - if you are for example writing something and you have to check some stuff so often its tedious to alt-tab. Although I believe that if you maximize a FF window on that kind of resolution some websites will be a pain (for the neck) to read.
By the way if I had such a big monitor as you do I’ll probably use the “tile” and “cascade” features of windows often. There is probably some FF extension to implement this behavior in the browser, just like Opera has it. Using Ctrl you can select only a few windows so you don’t have to tile your whole desktop. On linux I like the tiled wm’s but they are not very user-friendly and don’t play along nicely with most apps.
“Честито!” (”chestito!”) as we say.. means something like.. hell I have no idea how to translate it.. it implies a wish for happiness and satisfaction with something acquired. Bah, languages..
Comment by Dimitar Uzunov — May 26, 2008 @ 8:35 pm
My bf has a 22″ widescreen. When I’m at his computer, I also maximize everything, just because I can… That’s what I call “macht der gewoonte” Thom… ;-)
Comment by LoeZ — May 26, 2008 @ 9:26 pm
Hey… I always use firefox fullscreen. On my secondary monitor though !!! ;-)
Comment by vasper — May 26, 2008 @ 10:30 pm
Typical case of “why does a dog lick his own balls?”
Because he can.
Comment by Levi — May 27, 2008 @ 12:13 am
no, the proverb goes like this:
“It is a matter of taste - said the dog, and licked himself under the tail.”
Comment by Dimitar Uzunov — May 27, 2008 @ 5:56 am
Fullscreen is so 1985. Apps should be spread across 3 portrait-oriented screens and occasionally cut down to a single screen. :) Have a Wacom tablet with a pen disguised/embedded in a fetish for the fourth panel….
PDF readers seem to take 2GB once I get reading. Why not then? I will portend to literacy and have 20GB on a machine that could only ever have one CPU. Why would I need so much cached? In case I run into a flipbook doodle in the margins?
Firefox has all these tabs taking some vertical space, plus these controls I mean to use to control blogging…did I mention that Firefox 3 has been a pretty thorough pain?…so why shouldn’t it do everything…Add-Ins to burn dual-layer DVDs, etc. etc. I suppose that the idea there is that the desktop is -inside- somewhere. In order to do simple things it’s expected we’ll build and import until either the Singularity comes or CPU cores get tuberculosis.
Comment by Ankh if you love Whole Zombi Grain — June 13, 2008 @ 8:08 am