Javascript Bookmark to resize Safari Windows

Despite searching all over, I could not easily find how to keep Safari from opening new windows that were just a bit off on the left or the right sides of the screen. I had read tips about making a new window, resizing it and then closing it. Sure enough, the next new window would open with that size and position. But open a 2nd new window and Safari would position it a little bit to the right, thus leaving the scroll bars slightly off the right side of the screen.
So I tried to find a javascript to solve this problem. Nothing did exactly what I wanted, so I have customized what I found and the following works for me:
Step 1) Save any webpage as a bookmark to the Bookmarks Bar (Click "Bookmarks" then "Add Bookmark...", OR Click Apple-D, then choose "Bookmarks Bar", "Add").
Step 2) Open "Bookmarks" "Show All Bookmarks", then choose "Bookmarks Bar" on the left under "COLLECTIONS".
Step 3) Find the bookmark you added in Step 1 and change the Bookmark's name to "Resize Window to Fill screen" or whatever you want (click once on the name and after a delay click a second time, then type).
Step 4) Change the bookmark's address to "javascript:self.moveTo(0,0);self.resizeTo(1440,screen.availHeight);" (click once on the bookmark's address and after a delay click a second time, then type or copy and paste what is inside the quotation marks above).
Step 5) In any window, click Apple-1 and the window will resize!
Note: I have a 17" iMac. For different size screens, just play around with the number "1440" in the javascript above. Make it larger or smaller until it is the exact size you want. Also, if you add new bookmarks to the Bookmarks bar, it may change the keyboard shortcut number for this "Resize Window" bookmark. You can always drag to reorder the bookmarks. The top ones will have keyboard shortcuts "Apple-1", "Apple-2", etc.
Hope this helps someone else!

This helped me, and thanks again!!

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