407935 - Firefox does not notify plugins that their size has changed when tabs are opened

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Jeffrey Stedfast]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.10) Gecko/20071015 SUSE/2.0.0.10-0.1 Firefox/2.0.0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.10) Gecko/20071015 SUSE/2.0.0.10-0.1 Firefox/2.0.0.10

If you have a firefox window open with no tabs visiting a page that is displaying some plugin taking up the entire viewable area of the page and then open a tab, the plugin's widget does not get notified that its size has changed.

This is a problem if the plugin's widget does some magic like displaying some controls at the very bottom of the viewable area because if the vertical space shrinks, then it needs to change the vertical positioning of those controls so that the controls don't get moved off-screen (or, rather, off-viewport).

FWIW, this is with a Gtk-based plugin. Not sure if that makes a difference or not.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Do you have this problem using a recent trunk nightly?

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

reporter address is dead

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

incomplete then