1810889 - "You've launched an older version of Firefox" dialog is extremely wide with text all laid out on one line

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1804701

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Attachment: screenshot of the super-wide dialog

STR:

1. Start Firefox Nightly using a particular empty directory as your profile (to populate that directory with Nightly profile).
2. Quit.
3. Start Firefox release with that same directory as the profile.

e.g. assuming you have some $NIGHLTY_DIR and $RELEASE_DIR:

mkdir /tmp/test-dir-123
$NIGHTLY_DIR/firefox -no-remote -profile /tmp/test-dir-123
# quit out of Nightly
$RELEASE_DIR/firefox -no-remote -profile /tmp/test-dir-123

ACTUAL RESULTS:
The warning dialog (about the version-change) is extremely wide -- it seems we make it wide enough to fit all of the text on a single line. See attached screenshot. I imagine it might even be wider than this in other languages whose words tend to be longer (maybe German for example).

EXPECTED RESULTS:
The dialog probably shouldn't be so wide. The message should presumably linewrap.

(For comparison: if you start Firefox Nightly in Safe Mode, you get a safe-mode dialog ("open nightly in troubleshoot mode?") which has roughly the same amount of content but is much skinnier and wraps its text to 3 lines.)

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Attachment: screenshot of safe-mode dialog, just for comparison/reference

Comment 2

[Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]]

Looks like this might've been fixed by bug 1804701, were you checking 108 or 109?

Comment 3

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Attachment: screenshot with Firefox 109

Aha, you're right! Here's what I see after updating my Firefox release version to 109. Much better.