1793179 - Nightly's About box is skinnier than it used to be & feels a bit cramped

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1793259

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

The About Nightly dialog is skinnier than it used to be (after being wider-than-it-used-to-be for a few days in bug 1792337).

From slack with emilio:

• It used to be sized based on the length of some string.
• We recently added a wider string (which happened to be hidden by default), and this made it awkwardly extra wide, which was bug 1792337.
• Emilio addressed that by making the dialog respect a size (620px) that happened to be specified in our code already but was previously being ignored.
• So now we've got that hardcoded size, rather than the somewhat-larger string-length-based size that we've had for a long time.

This feels a bit like a jarring change, and the dialog's text feels a bit more cramped & more linewrapped than it used to be, to me at least. I wonder if we should pick a new size that's closer to what we used to have?

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Attachment: screenshot of current Nightly behavior

Here's a screenshot of current Nightly behavior (from a quite-recent autoland build, launched via mozregression mozregression --launch c4d1d04d32cc --repo autoland)

Comment 2

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Attachment: screenshot of what I'm used to

...vs. here's a screenshot from Nightly 2022-09-01 (which is the sizing/behavior we've had for quite a while, I think).

Comment 3

[Robin Steuber (she/her) [:bytesized]]

The inspector reports that Release Firefox currently has the About dialog sized at 670px, 50px bigger than the 620px that is now enforced. Do we want to go back to that?