132233 - Right click context menu item to resize large browser windows to within the screen display

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Security: CAPS, defect)

Description

[u32858]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020227
BuildID:    2002022700

many sites have popup windows that are huge, so huge that its not possible to
resize them to within the screen size. This is bad site design on the webmasters
part but we need a way to rezise the window. (or automatically change the values
in the javascript so that the browser can not open a window thats too big!)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to the URL above
2.or any other site that has huge popups
3.

Actual Results:  window is too large, can not find the bottom right resize
window icon

Expected Results:  the popup command should be either limited or the javascript
interpriter should change it automatically so we dont have this problem

Context menu item would be nice. There are work arounds, but it would be nice if
we did not have to use work arounds when there are some bad web site designs out
there, IMO

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

to CAPS (Mitch already has a bug on this sort of thing)

Comment 2

[Mitchell Stoltz (not reading bugmail)]

Hmm, we have an option to prevent scripts from opening new windows, but I don't
think we have an option that puts any restrictions on the initial size of the
window (other than keeping it no larger than the screen, of course). We could
add an option for keeping new windows restricted to n% of screen area - but is
it worth it? We have been getting lots of well-meaning suggestions for new
annoying-content controls, and I'm worried about feature bloat - too many
options leads to confusion. Since we now have a pretty effective mechanism for
blocking unwanted popup windows entirely, I'm not convinced we need to put
restrictions on their size. Comments, anyone?

Comment 3

[u32858]

The window is opened bigger than my screen. 

hmm, is mozilla checking visible size against screen size or whole
window+bars+scrolers etc against window size?

as that example website's popup is too big to reach the resizer in the bottom right

JG

Comment 4

[Mitchell Stoltz (not reading bugmail)]

> hmm, is mozilla checking visible size against screen size or whole
> window+bars+scrolers etc against window size?
It's supposed to take the titlebar, scrollbars, etc. into account, and AFAIK it
does so on all platforms except some Unix/Linux window managers. There's a bug
on that somewhere. JG, which WM are you using?

Comment 5

[u32858]

KDE 2.2.x on Mandrake 8.1

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

Related bugs:
bug 103454 Scripts can hide Enlightenment's window decorations.
bug 104303 Security of resizeTo relies on platform-specific widget code to
enforce restrictions on window size, so scripts can make huge windows.

Comment 7

[Mitchell Stoltz (not reading bugmail)]

Wontfix.