248648 - firefox - choose user profile window too small after 1st profile created

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Felix Miata]

build tested: mozilla.org xft-gtk2 20040615 (firefox 0.9) on SuSE 9.1 and Fedora
Core 1. DPIs tested 96, 108, 120, 132, 144.

To reproduce:
1-create a new user
2-untar the firefox build to a suitable directory in /usr/local
3-login as the new user
4-create a directory for the profile (e.g. /home/test/.firefox09)
5-create the profile directory (e.g. /home/test/firefox09/default)
6-run '/usr/local/firefox09/firefox -profilemanager'
7-select "create profile"
8-choose the previously created directory & profile name to complete the
creation process

Actual behavior:
1-an unclickably small portion of the Exit and Start Firefox buttons is visible
until you resize the window

Expected behavior:
1-the Exit and Start Firefox buttons are fully visible without resizing the window

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

Attachment: screenshot - window before creating a profile

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

Attachment: screenshot - window after creating a profile

note these screenshots were made on SuSE 9.1 at 1280x960 on 144DPI, but the
difference at other tested DPI settings on Fedora Core 1 was minimal.

Comment 3

[Felix Miata]

Attachment: screenshot - window after creating a profile (Win98)

Comment 4

[Felix Miata]

Changing from Linux to All, since this also happens on Win98 with 0.9.1 on a
system that never had FF installed before. After FF has been run and closed,
restarting with -profilemanager produces a suitably sized window without the
buttons cut off.

Note that I have never used any installer builds on any OS.

Comment 5

[Benjamin Smedberg]

*** Bug 247779 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Benjamin Smedberg]

*** Bug 273415 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[ratman]

please note that, as detailed in bug 273415, this bug occurs when there isn't a
profiles.ini in the root profiles directory when firefox is started.

Comment 8

[Felix Miata]

*** Bug 327761 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Hasham]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

This is a problem in FF3RC2. Only seems to occur when first profile is created. Works fine for other profiles.

Comment 16

[Virgil Dicu [:virgil] [QA]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0 Beta 1
Build ID: 20121121075611

This is still reproducible for Firefox 18.0 beta 1 when creating the first profile.

Comment 17

[Virgil Dicu [:virgil] [QA]]

Attachment: Firefox 18.0 beta 1 on Windows 7 x64

Comment 18

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Wow. Still happens on 29.

Comment 19

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S4. However, the bug has 9 duplicates.
:mossop, could you consider increasing the bug severity?

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Comment 20

[BugBot (nomail) [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The last needinfo from me was triggered in error by recent activity on the bug. I'm clearing the needinfo since this is a very old bug and I don't know if it's still relevant.