It seems like one of those “now, why didn’t someone think of this sooner?” ideas now that I’ve tried it, but I’ve recently discovered Jeremy Zawodny’s Resizable Textarea extension and I dig it. Like the name says, it allows you to resize text-entry boxes (<textarea> fields) in Firefox. There’re no fancy hotkeys to learn — you just grab the edge of the box, your pointer turns into a double-headed arrow and you can pull on the edge to resize it. Dandy.
Oh, and if you’re running Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 — a perfectly cromulent arrangement — you may have a bit of a hiccup since Resizable Textarea extension has only been green-lit to work on versions up to Firefox 1.5. Not to worry — the Nightly Tester Tools extension can take care of that for you. Among other things, it adds an “override compatibility” to the normal extension dialog box; since most extension authors are very conservative in their version boundaries, overriding those tends to work almost every time.
Can I use this extension in Thunderbird, latest version, on Windows XP, SP 2? I cannot access the OK button on the New Card dialog box. My laptop display is at 800×600, and my second monitor screen is 15 inches. There is no help in Thunderbird forums for this resizing problem. I am only a user, not a developer, so all detailed instructions are welcome. I know how to install extensions, however! Many thanks Sept 20, 2006