202692 - Tools -> Options... dialog window is too big for 800x600

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Thomas Krennwallner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030416 Phoenix/0.5+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030416 Phoenix/0.5+

I have a laptop with a small resolution of 800x600. When I try to set some
preferences in Tools -> Options... I get a window which is actually larger than
800x600. I hardly can see the OK and Cancel buttons and what preference I'm
about to configure is out of my sight as the left navicons are nearly invisible.
The upper region is also out of my sight so I'm not sure if every preference is
editable. But the proxy settings are editable so at least I can configure them.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Resolution of 800x600
2. open Tools -> Options...
Actual Results:  
Preferences dialog is bigger than 800x600

Expected Results:  
A proper dialog which scales down to 800x600. Maybe with sort of tabs as the
preferences navigation icons are big and take too much space.

Comment 1

[noririty]

Reporter:
Please attach a screenshot of the problem.

Comment 2

[Thomas Krennwallner]

Attachment: Screenshot of whole screen

This is the requested screenshot. As I can see this it's a similar bug to
164730. But I'm using a nightly build from mozilla.org. And I'm using Debian
testing as of this writing.

Comment 3

[noririty]

Thank you for your help.
Would you test if this can also reproduce with mozilla?

Comment 4

[Thomas Krennwallner]

Both Debian mozilla 1.0.0 and the latest nightly build from mozilla.org seems to
do it right. Both Preferences dialogs appear much smaller than 800x600.

Comment 5

[noririty]

thanks.

Can anybody reproduce it?

Comment 6

[David P James]

I don't have access to my Linux box at the moment - I'll take a look on
Wednesday when I do.

Comment 7

[David P James]

I'm not getting that problem at 800x600... there's something about your fonts
that is different though. Did you build from CVS with xft enabled?

Comment 8

[Thomas Krennwallner]

No, it's a nightly build from mozilla.org. I don't have libxft installed. I have
a running xfs as it's default on a debian host.

Comment 9

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

This bug is also somewhat similar to bug #171454

Comment 10

[Felix Miata]

Reporter, is this still happening to you? What DPI is Mozilla using? Do this to
discover system resolution:

     xdpyinfo -display :0 | grep resolution

Using a lower DPI will shrink the UI fonts and the prefs dialog. See
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206975#c2 for an alternative to the
clunky 'prefs->appearance->fonts' method of setting Mozilla to use a different DPI.

Comment 11

[Thomas Krennwallner]

My resolution is 100x100 dpi.

I downloaded the last nightly build and it works now! The Preferences Dialog is
now small, beautiful and useable. Thanks!

Comment 12

[Felix Miata]

marking WFM per reporter comment 11

Comment 13

[noririty]

v.