Firefox will not use full screen for display

I asked this a while back and never got it resolved. I hope someone can help because I've been using Firefox for years but for the past couple months have had to use other browsers because FF is not working properly.
First of all- the display of any sites only takes up the middle os the screen. Even if I hit CTRL and scroll it enlarges the text but never expands to fill the whole screen as other browsers do. On my old computer I never had this problem but ever since I switched to my new one, with new flat panel monitor and Win7, I have been having this problem.
Also, I chose the Win7 theme of high-contrast black with pink. This has resulted in issues with many sites not displaying their chosen backgrounds and worse yet even sometimes buttons and other content on the pages is obliterated/hidden/invisible. Like you can still click on something if you can find it. The old version of Flock which is FF based also has this problem (as well as having all-white url and toolbar areas so you cannot read anything) while Google Chrome and new Flock do not- so it is definitely a problem with the coding here.
Please help, I would like to use Firefox again if I could also enjoy my new monitor and not just 1/3rd of the screen or less.

You can see that there is a VERY wide margin on either side- and this was already enlarged substantially with control/scroll which did not widen it at all (as it does on Google Chrome) only enlarged the miniscule text. I opened the exact same page in Chrome and widened it to fill the whole screen...

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