embarrassing but true: It was a simple case of the zoom . browser was set to 80% zoom. 
Tony
PS Sometimes one is blind.  Onwards and upwards.

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Earnie Boyd <earnie@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Anthony <tony@tony-mac.com> wrote:
> I was referring to the width of the site and the grid. Now a friend says she
> can see the width as = to 1024 in FF. But still in my FF I see 920 or so.
> this also after re-starting the machine.
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Anthony <tony@tony-mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> HI All,
>> I have my own grid defined at width=1024px (normal media query) in the
>> Omega theme. Somehow when I look at it in OPera, IE or Chrome it is fine and
>> appears at 1024 wide. But when in firefox it is 960.  I have tried flushing
>> cache (repeatedly); logging out and in; restarting firefox    ....Does
>> anyone know the internals of the theme to tell me where this setting might
>> be or why this is happening?

Tony, you should check the issue queue at project/issues/omega and if
you don't find your problem referenced open a new issue queue.

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