166226 - QuickLaunch does not restore window position

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: QuickLaunch (AKA turbo mode), defect)

Description

[Daniele Pagano]

I like my browser window not full size, and on the right of the screen (I have a
large screen). When I used QuickLaunch on Mozilla 1.0, and a number of previous
builts, the window was placed back where I left it, while now (1.1 final, and
the same on the alpha, which I didn't use for this reason) it ends up on the
left. If I disable QL and open every time, the window position does not
change... until I go back to QL, which insists on the left. It's annoying for
me, but seems easy to fix (especially since it used to work). I don't know if it
matters, by my bar at the bottom is two rows instead of one. Thanks!

Comment 1

[Grace Bush]

using nightly 2002091008- cannot reproduce, window comes up as I left it on
previous session.  tried with small window to left, larger window to right 

Comment 2

[Daniele Pagano]

I still get the same error with 1.2 alpha (build 2002091014). When I close the 
last browser window, the tray icon disappears for about a second, then appears 
again. I noticed that during this disappearance (and only then) there are two 
Mozilla processes running instead of one. I don't know whether that's normal, 
but the problem has been happening only since the tray icon has been 
disappearing.

When I double click on the icon, the window still opens near the top left (at 
about 0,30). Once in a while, for no apparent reason, the window appears at 
the right X coordinate, but somewhat shifted down on the Y coordinate.

Comment 3

[Grace Bush]

you may be seeing two other bugs...bug 139142 - with window placement lower on
each launch and bug 146340, icon disappears from tray for a few seconds on shutdown

Comment 4

[Daniele Pagano]

I agree that bug 139142 is at least part of this bug. The Window is restored 
the reported amount lower in every case. In most of the cases, however, it is 
also moved all the way to the left (actually it's a few pixels off the left 
edge). Since it is always about 30px from the top, even if it was down before, 
I suspect the coordinates are zeroed-out, and subsequently the other bug gets 
applied to move the window down.

The icon dissapearance doesn't bother me by itself, and at this point I don't 
know if they are related.

Comment 5

[Pete Hammer]

I still get this in 1.2b build 2002091904, win98.  At least from reading this, I
figured out that it goes away if quicklaunch is disabled.  whew.  It was
starting to irritate me...  Basically, I could see absolutely no way to get the
initial window to appear anywhere other than 0,30.  Since I also prefer the
window on the right side of the screen, I was having to move it evvverryyy
sinnngle tiiiime.

What is the relation between this bug and 86955?  There were supposed speed
optimizations that broke window position persistance...  I vote for fixing the
persistance issue, because I lose 5-7 SECONDS always repositioning the window
where I want it, vs the 1-2 MILLIseconds saved by the optimization. 

(I don't think this is part of 139142:  The window wasn't coming up lower each
time for me, just ALWAYS in 0,30.)

Comment 6

[Daniele Pagano]

Well, bug 139142 is quite a separate one, but I have this theory: every time 
your window is restored from quicklauch it is placed at 0,0, and every time it 
is ALSO moved 30 pixels down. It may just be a coincidence, of course, but 
when I tried to analyze the bug by opening and closing my window many times in 
a row, I seldomly just got the behavior of bug 139142, which therefore is 
around there for me, possibly every single time. I think considering this may 
leave the present bug easier to find.

I also reverted quickly to not using quicklaunch, but I kinda like it, so it's 
too bad.

I'm especially glad someone else gets this bug! I was starting to get worried 
it was a WORKSFORME.

Comment 7

[Torsten Nahm]

I get the same behavior using Mozilla 1.1 and QuickLaunch. Interestingly, this is only now after I reinstallted v 1.1 (after trying 1.2b and finding it flaky). IIRC, when I used 1.1 with QuickLaunch before, there was no problem with the window position, so the bug seems only to affect some configurations.

Comment 8

[Tamer Abdelgawad]

Just wanted to point out that this occurs on Win2k as well as the reported XP.  It is a minor bug, but it's really stopping me from using QuickLaunch at all, hence my vote :-)

Comment 9

[Tamer Abdelgawad]

Forgot to add that this persists in version 1.2.1, which is what I'm running.

Comment 10

[Chris Lyon]

*** Bug 168249 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Chris Lyon]

*** Bug 185097 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Quicklaunch/Turbo Mode is no longer supported in Seamonkey 2 and Seamonkey1.X is in the maintenance mode (fixing only security bugs)