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Here we go, Web developers. I know we all hate the ritual process of testing the look and feel of a site in different resolutions. I, for one, get the foul taste of bile in my mouth whenever I have to consider designing a site for ya'all still trapped on 1024-by-768 displays. Ugh.
Of course, I'll be darned if I'm going to try and measure my browser window to make sure that I'm rendering everything at the correct size these lesser resolutions call for. Which is exactly why one of the first add-ons I go searching for when installing a new browser is the ol' "Make My Browser Whatever Size I Want Automatically" plugin. In Chrome's case, it's called Resolution Test.
What Resolution Test does is fairly simple. Click the button in your browser toolbar and down drops a list of common resolutions that you might want to resize your window at. Click on said resolution--or a combination thereof--and hit the "View all selected" button. Browser windows get launched and resized to the exact specifications you asked for and, well, that's about it.
The extension also gives you quick access to Google's Browser Size utility--an awesome overlay that you can use to analyze any page on the Internet against the bell curve of potential user resolutions. Check but one box in the extension's options to enable this useful mashup.
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Mighty BOB!
June 26, 2010 at 5:23pm
Ooh thanks. That is much less of a hassle (and faster) than changing the resolution of my 2nd monitor.
