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While I welcome another way to fight the constant tracking that we've come to know and love, this is, in my case, a break of workflow [1]. I do responsive web
by franky47 8y ago
While I welcome another way to fight the constant tracking that we've come to know and love, this is, in my case, a break of workflow [1].
I do responsive web design, and spend a considerable amount of time resizing my browser window as a "cheap" way of previewing how it would look on narrower screens. Having the resize snap to multiples of 100 or 200px would make this experience horrible. Disabling it on localhost (where you're supposedly in control of what goes in and out the browser) could be a solution.
[1] https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/
- curiousgal 8y agoWhy not use the built-in mobile preview tool that allows you to set custom dimensions?
- franky47 8y agoI also use that, but I find it faster and more straightforward to just drag the window edge, especially when devtools are not opened. One example is using browser and editor side-by-side on a single macOS split-full-screen.
- chrismorgan 8y agoYou can open responsive mode via a keyboard shortcut without needing the dev tools open; on Windows it’s Ctrl+Shift+M, no idea about macOS but it’s doubtless easy to look up.
- meruru 8y agoIt's the same shortcut on Linux and *BSD and probably everywhere.
- rhizome 8y agoI know you're not asking for advice, but in this case I would use LiveReload against multiple windows covering the breakpoints. Then you'll only need to wiggle edges to check breakpoint transitions.
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- chrismorgan 8y agoAll of these sorts of features are disabled by default, and only enabled if you enable the privacy.resistFingerprinting setting in about:config (or install an extension that does that). Among normal users, this letterboxing feature especially would upset almost everyone (though not as much as the Tor feature it’s inspired by), so I cannot imagine it ever being enabled by default.