254689 - Visual glitch of the location bar when a too long url has to be displayed

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Francois Ingelrest]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040806 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040806 Firefox/0.9.1+

There is a visual problem with the location bar the first time an url has to be
displayed if this one is too long. This happens since a long time, but I never
searched what was causing this before.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Close FF if it is running
2. Launch it
3. Try to display an url that is too long for the location bar, either by using
a bookmarked page, or by doing a google search in the search bar

Actual Results:  
The size of the location bar briefly increases while the size of the search bar
decreases. This is done in perhaps 0.5s but this is visible. Then each bar take
its original size back.

Expected Results:  
Each bar should keep its size.

This happens only the first time an url has to be displayed. For example, if I
first use a short bookmarked url, nothing happens after that, regardless of the
size of the next url's. I'll post a screenshot to be more precise.

Comment 1

[Francois Ingelrest]

Attachment: Example of a navigation bar that causes this problem

This is what my main bar looks like. If I search for a term in the search bar
that will generate a long URL, the problem I described above happens.

Comment 2

[sny]

Visual glide of visual components, when I take 
a URL Get Parameter (here SESSION_ID) on my Links.

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<a href="openOffice.php?SESSION_ID=gdffz7s8df4z87zt8ezt8e4z78et" 
target="...">text</a>

When I do that, my Site is shift to left or to right ?  
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<a href="openOffice.php" target="...">text</a>

When I do that, my Site looks ok . WHY THIS ?

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Stephan Nych (Fa. Snyware)

Comment 3

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

Does this problem still occur? Please try a recent version of Firefox available at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ and report back with your results. (bug cleaning)

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

I can't reproduce this bug with: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a2pre) Gecko/20090812 Minefield/3.6a2pre ID:20090812045356 using the Default Theme.

The toolbar is working fine and it's not resizing, neither is the search bar.

Comment 5

[Kevin Brosnan]

works for me - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091228 Minefield/3.7a1pre