111545 - script that tries to "almost maximize" an already-maximized window unmaximizes it

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[Niels Aufbau]

Steps to reproduce: 
1. Maximize your browser window.
2. Load the URL above (warning: porn) or the testcase.

Actual result:
In Mozilla: window unmaximizes.
In Netscape 4: window unmaximizes and then re-maximizes.
In Internet Explorer: window unmaximizes and then re-maximizes.
In Opera: window moves to the middle of the screen but is still in a maximized
state.

Expected result: window should remain maximized the whole time.

Note that in all browsers I tested, resizeTo/moveTo could not turn a normal
window into a maximized window.  Netscape 4 and Internet Explorer seem to
remember that the window was once maximized.

(I'd prefer if webpages didn't try to resize themselves, but many porn sites do
try to "maximize" themselves by becoming as large as they can.)

Comment 1

[Niels Aufbau]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Michael Gabriel]

just turn if off if you dont like it :P

Comment 3

[Dan M]

  Sizing a maximized Mozilla window unmaximizes it. Otherwise windows opened to
a specific size from a maximized browser window would themselves be maximized,
to the great annoyance of all. Think popups. See bug 98701 and bug 43001.
Personally I'd be more annoyed by that than by losing my maximized state in a
legitimate browser window. I choose to stick with the current behaviour. Bug
98701 is a dead snake.
  If you're bothered by websites which resize your window on you, you can
disable their ability to do that in edit > preferences > advanced > scripts.
It's a shame users have to do that, but the web is full of jerks.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

Reopening.

* This bug is only about what happens when an already-maximized window tries to
resize itself to dimensions larger than the screen can hold.

* Mozilla's behavior does not match IE's behavior and does not match Netscape
4.x's behavior.  In both IE and Mozilla, resizing an already-maximized window to
dimensions larger than the screen temporarily resizes it and re-maximizes it. 
(On my Windows XP machine, these things happen so fast that I barely notice
them, and a reasonable improvement over IE's and 4.x's behavior would be to skip
the step of temporarily resizing the window.)

* Mozilla's behavior does not match what the web site is trying to do, which is
to make itself as large as it is allowed to make itself.

* Fixing this bug would not necessarily allow a web site to maximize itself if
it is not already maximized.  (See IE's and NS4's behavior.)

Comment 5

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Mass-reassigning bugs to [e-mail]

Comment 6

[Alex Hirzel]

*** Bug 240152 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[(Anonymous)]

i can confirm this bug (using the testcase)
firefox 1.5, windows xp

as workaround you can disallow scripts to "Move or resize existing windows" in the advanced javascript settings

Comment 8

[Michael Stather]

Can you please fix this? As other browsers act correctly so should firefox. My homebanking page is affected by this and it´s very annoying. Thanks :)

Comment 9

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Mass bug change to replace various 'parity' whiteboard flags with the new canonical keywords. (See bug 1443764 comment 13.)