Grid, Board & Gallery — Size, pin and reorder the columns
Drag the right-hand edge of a header to make a column wider or narrower, or double-click that edge to fit it to what's actually in it. Drag a header itself to move the column.
Widths belong to the view, not to your browser, so the layout you set travels — to your other machine, to your colleagues, and to anyone opening a link you've published, where the layout is the whole artefact and there is no browser of theirs to remember it. Sizing a shared view is a view edit and takes the same permission as hiding a column; if you don't have it, your widths still stick, they just stay yours.
Freeze holds columns still while the rest scrolls sideways. It's a boundary rather than a per-column switch — the menu reads Freeze through this column, so picking the third one holds the first three — because a frozen column pins to the left edge and freezing the fifth while the first four scrolled would drop it on top of them. Nothing is frozen by default. The boundary counts the columns as this view renders them, so hiding or reordering one moves it with the layout instead of stranding it. The checkbox and row number always pin either way.