126828 - Browser reverts to default size, not user specified size

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Robert Lange]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020205
BuildID:    2002020511

when an ordinary browser window opens as the result of a hyperlink, that window
is the default size, not the size last specified by the user. this is
particularly annoying when the result of clicking a hyperlink in the Mail/News,
because the resulting window is often the only browser window, which means the
user-specifced size is set to this size after this window is closed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. close all Mozilla windows.
2. open a Browser window and resize it (ie: 750x750). close it. this is now the
user-specified default size every time a new browser window is opened.
3. open Mail/News. open an email/news article containing a hyperlink. click the
link.
__OR__

1. same as above
2. same as above
3. goto http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/bugzilla-helper.html
4. click login under step1.

Actual Results:  the resulting Browser window uses the original Mozilla window
size. all subsequent Mozilla browsers opened also use this size. if this browser
window is the last Mozilla window closed, the original default window size will
override the last user-specified size.

Expected Results:  the resulting Browser window should use the last
user-specified window size as the size of the new window, not the original default.

Comment 1

[Peter Trudelle]

->bryner

Comment 2

[Vadim Berezniker]

reporter, this sounds more like window manager behaviour than a mozilla bug

what window manager are you using?

Comment 3

[Robert Lange]

Sorry for the delay,
Using red hats's distro of Sawfish 0.38-11
also occurs using twm.

Comment 4

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

can you still reproduce this with recent versions of Mozilla and sawfish?

Comment 5

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

THis sounds like bug 116610, which is fexed by now. Are you still seing this?

Comment 6

[Robert Lange]

Hi. Sorry for the delay again. I am using Red Hat 7.3 which uses sawfish 1.x and
Mozilla 1.0.0 and I still see the problem. It does sound the same as bug 116610
so I will try mozilla 1.0.1 to see if its the same bug.

Comment 7

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, do you still see the problem with Mozilla 1.0.1 or 1.1 or 1.2a ? If
you don't please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks.

Comment 8

[Robert Lange]

I upgraded to RedHat 8 which includes 1.0.1 and the browser windows now open to
the correct size. I am not sure if this is b/c of the new window manager or a
fix in mozilla, but it now works for me.

Comment 9

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

v per reporter