New LG 55' 4K TV question about resolution connected to PC

Post #1 puzzles me - I've never known anyone use a browser full screen on a 16:9 monitor. Web pages are usually fixed width - around 1020px - so I view Firefox etc windowed at about 1200 - 1000 px (on a 1920-1080 screen). Anything else has huge blank spaces. Although you can zoom a webpage to fill a widescreen, the vertical size would be stupid and unusable. The OP is surprised when a 1020px webpage looks tiny on a 4K screen.

When Windows 8 first came out, IIRC IE would only run full screen, and the Google logo looked tiny and ridiculous in a vast white expanse.

Surely widescreens are only used for movies + TV, Photoshop etc - and browsers should be used windowed ?

Wikipedia is one of the few websites that use % layout - and so Wiki can be dragged to fill a screen of any size/aspect. It is hard to read on widescreen IMHO. You can even stretch Wiki across an extended desktop . . .

wasnotwas said:

Post #1 puzzles me - I've never known anyone use a browser full screen on a 16:9 monitor. Web pages are usually fixed width - around 1020px - so I view Firefox etc windowed at about 1200 - 1000 px (on a 1920-1080 screen). Anything else has huge blank spaces. Although you can zoom a webpage to fill a widescreen, the vertical size would be stupid and unusable. The OP is surprised when a 1020px webpage looks tiny on a 4K screen.

When Windows 8 first came out, IIRC IE would only run full screen, and the Google logo looked tiny and ridiculous in a vast white expanse.

Surely widescreens are only used for movies + TV, Photoshop etc - and browsers should be used windowed ?

Wikipedia is one of the few websites that use % layout - and so Wiki can be dragged to fill a screen of any size/aspect. It is hard to read on widescreen IMHO. You can even stretch Wiki across an extended desktop . . .

I just wanted to see if it would work at that res and when it didn't I posted to see if there was something I was missing. I'm using the 1920x1080 now which is fine I messed with the scaling and under/overscan through the video card and tried different methods and having checking a lot of the tabs I had open in FF some websites actually looked normal but tiny and most had the dead space on the sides. It's fine I know now its just not possible to view pages in that super high res.

ThrashZone said:

Hi,
Adjust the page zoom on Firefox or use Ctrl+++ keys :)
I'd usually use a page zoom of 150%

I tried that all it does is take the middle section and make it bigger with the space on the sides being zoomed in its doesn't widen the section to fit :)