1048225 - Search suggestion box doesn't follow the search bar when resizing the browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1159672

(Firefox :: Search, defect, P3)

Description

[Petruta Horea [:phorea], Desktop Test Engineering]

Attachment: WrongPositionPanel.png

Reproducible on Nightly 34.0a1 20140803030203:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Firefox 
2. On about:home page enter some string in the search bar - search suggestions are displayed
3. Resize the browser, maximize it, enter full screen etc 
4. Repeat these steps on the about:newtab page

Actual results:
Search suggestion box is moved on the screen, it's position doesn't remain fixed to the search bar

Expected results:
Search suggestions box should either close when resizing the browser (such as Australis panel and icons), either stick to the search bar

Comment 1

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Hiding the suggestions when resizing the browser sounds like a good and easy way to fix this.  Making the popup a real autocomplete popup would be even better...

Comment 2

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Bug 1066787 will make these suggestions use the standard toolkit/XUL autocomplete popup.