109397 - New window opens on same monitor as frontmost window with multiple monitors

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Mike D]

If you have multiple monitors on a Macintosh, creating a new window should open
in the "Default" window location.  Mozilla 0.95, however, always opens the
window on the same monitor as the frontmost window.

I much prefer for the window to be opened on the default / other monitor, so you
can do effective multiple-monitor browsing.

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Mike, can you still reproduce this problem using Mozilla 0.9.6?

Also, what do you mean by "default" location? Do you mean the main monitor, the one 
with the OS Menu Bar?

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

pinkerton, do you know if this is already reported? it looks familiar but I
can't find a bug. 

Comment 3

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

oh crap, you're right. 6.2 does not do this, but the trunk does. it's just plain
wrong, something regressed.

-> danm

Comment 4

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

after talking with danm, it appears that the behavior before now was actually
broken. where the new window would open was a crapshoot based on the last window
to move, or to close, or something...nobody really understood it.

The new method does exactly as this bug reports. The topmost window is the basis
of the next window to open. This begs the question, though, what happens when
there aren't any windows open?

Comment 5

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

i just tried it with no windows open, it does the right thing.

Comment 6

[Dan M]

  I'm unsure what the "default" window location is. After talking with Pinkerton
it seems that users of Nav 4.x might be accustomed to a kind of behaviour that
could be taken as a default. There, the new window position and size is reset
only when you close a window. That could be taken as a fairly sticky default
position; it wouldn't move often if you didn't open and close many windows.
  Conceptually though, that was pretty broken: resetting the new-window
parameters only by closing another window. Mozilla intentionally resets the
new-window parameters to stay in lock-step with the current top-most window. I'm
sure the new heuristic has its detractors. Trust me, it has fans, too.
  That said I have noticed a bug in recent builds; it doesn't reliably use the
current active window right now. Curses. Another regression.