Stack Exchange on a small resolution screen

Question

When I'm behind a 1024x768 screen the width of content on this site is decreased making several answers and questions inconvenient to read. How can I have the site loaded with full widths and heights but having scroll bars instead?

When I edit this question I do in fact have a horizontal scroll bar, and I suppose full width. Why is readability more of an aim during editing?!

In addition to the current answer I found 'Hide left navigation' in preferences that makes the problem 164px less bad when responsiveness is on, and improves the position of Q/As when responsiveness is off.

Answer 1

The so called "responsive design" can be disabled with a button on the very bottom left of the site:

Then you will be able to see the content at its natural size. Unfortunately you will have to repeat this process for every Stack Exchange community separately and also repeat it if your clear the cookies of your browser.

To make this permanent for the whole network, you can use the following user script:

// ==UserScript==
// @name        StackExchange, disable responsiveness
// @match       *://*.askubuntu.com/*
// @match       *://*.mathoverflow.net/*
// @match       *://*.serverfault.com/*
// @match       *://*.stackapps.com/*
// @match       *://*.stackexchange.com/*
// @match       *://*.stackoverflow.com/*
// @match       *://*.superuser.com/*
// @run-at       document-start
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

// from https://stackoverflow.com/a/5968306
function getCookie(name) {
    var dc = document.cookie;
    var prefix = name + "=";
    var begin = dc.indexOf("; " + prefix);
    if (begin == -1) {
        begin = dc.indexOf(prefix);
        if (begin != 0) return null;
    }
    else
    {
        begin += 2;
        var end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", begin);
        if (end == -1) {
        end = dc.length;
        }
    }
    // because unescape has been deprecated, replaced with decodeURI
    //return unescape(dc.substring(begin + prefix.length, end));
    return decodeURI(dc.substring(begin + prefix.length, end));
} 


(function() {
'use strict';

    var myCookie = getCookie("no-responsiveness");

    if (myCookie == null) {
        document.cookie = "no-responsiveness=1";
    }

})();