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I have blank margins on my homepage that just appeared the other day and seem to be going nowhere..how to remedy this??

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i have about 2 inches of blank white on both sides of my homepage, top to bottom, like margins...

Help me make them go bye-bye

i have about 2 inches of blank white on both sides of my homepage, top to bottom, like margins... Help me make them go bye-bye

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Reset the page zoom on pages that cause problems.

  • View > Zoom > Reset (Ctrl+0 (zero); Cmd+0 on Mac)
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nope, all other pages are fine

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thanks but didn't fix issue

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Can you attach a screenshot?

Use a compressed image type like PNG or JPG to save the screenshot.

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did it in PNG, hope you can view it......very odd---i reinstalled firefox a few times, did not help, but when i tried to uninstall 'including customizations' the uninstall locks up and i am forced to 'cntrl,alt,del and end program; it is uninstalled but leaves my customizations alone...also Odd!

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also my IE does not have this issue....the firefox has never done this before...about the same time this happened i was trying to get a giftcard from walmart and had to click on several sales offers; they were not intrusive popups---(maybe no connection but it is when the problem occured

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That is how the page is constructed.
Firefox doesn't use fit to screen.

You can use an extension to set a default font size and page zoom on web pages.

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hey, but until just the other day it was always to the edges of the screen; so there is something going on...

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just got a update for the browser, to 15.0.0, and that fixed it. margins are back where they have always been. thanks for trying, just fyi was not imagined issue and may happen in future to others, so let them in on the secret