1799324 - Addon popup opening on the other side of the window for no good reason

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(WebExtensions :: Frontend, enhancement, P3)

Description

[mprops]

Attachment: popupscreen.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:107.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/107.0

Steps to reproduce:

This is Firefox 107 on linux. What I do is put a firefox window on the side.

I have a popup icon placed on the top left corner of the browser.

Actual results:

If I place the window tiled to the left side, and then click the icon, the popup opens inside the window (good).

But if I tile the window to the right and then click the popup, it opens on the left (not good). Because it has more free space I guess, but it's awkward.

(Check pick attached)

Expected results:

The popup should have opened inside the window, since there's enough space.

Opening the popup outside the window is weird.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez [:emilio]]

This isn't a core issue, the front-end is asking to open them towards the left:

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=bottomright+topright%22&path=&case=false&regexp=false

Those could possibly use the current popup anchor position to determine whether it's preferrable to open towards the left or right.