214532 - multiple monitors: [view page info], [view source], [javascript console] dialogs appear on primary display

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 245418

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Brad Fults]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030729 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030729 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

The "View Page Info", "View Source" and "JavaScript Console" windows appear on
the primary display of a multiple display system when the browser is on the
secondary display.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a browser window and place it on the secondary display.
2. Open either the "View Page Info", "View Source" or "JavaScript Console" window.
3. Observe that the opened window appears on the primary display.

Actual Results:  
The opened window appears on the primary display.

Expected Results:  
The opened window should appear on the same display from which the action
originated (the display on which the invoked browser resides).

Comment 1

[Vedran Miletic]

My best guess would be that this is a duplicate of 98830. However, I can't be
100% sure - someone please reopen this if you think different.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98830 ***

Comment 2

[Dan M]

Bug 98830 comment 19 point 3 gives a more thorough explanation. This bug isn't a
duplicate of 98830, then. (brad, if you meant something else, please make a
note. And then consider closing this bug as a duplicate of 98830 :) ).

This one notices that the View Source, View Page Info and JavaScript Console
Windows are positioned where they last appeared. That's just like any other
top-level window. The reporter suggests they should instead be positioned
relative to their browser window.

Comment 3

[Brad Fults]

Dan, Bug 98830 comment 19 point 3 is precisely what I was trying to convey, 
thus it is not a duplicate of Bug 98830.

Comment 4

[Diego Alberto Bernal]

IRC has the same problem with when you make right click in the channels tabs

Comment 5

[David Costanzo]

With Mozilla v1.5 running on Windows XP, I was not able to reproduce the problem
with the "View Page Source" dialog.  However, I was able to reproduce the
problem with the other two dialog boxes mentioned in the original description.

I also noticed that the "File Save" dialog showed up on the wrong monitor in
version 1.6b, but that problem has been fixed in version 1.6 (currently the
latest build).

In the interest of completeness, I have compiled a list of which windows always
show up on the primary montior, and which show up on the correct one (the one
where mozilla is).  All of this data comes from v 1.6 running on Windows XP.

Selections from the navigator that create new windows on the primary monitor:
  File->New->Message
  File->New->Composer Page
  File->Send Page...
  File->Send Link...
  File->Edit Page
  View->Page Info
  Bookmark->Manage Bookmarks
  Tools->Form Manager->Edit Form Info
  Tools->Switch Profile
  Tools->Web Development->JavaScript Console
  Tools->Web Development->Java Console
  Tools->Web Development->DOM Inspector
  Tools->Web Development->JavaScript Debugger
  Tools->Download Manager
  Tools->Switch Profile

Comment 6

[José Jeria]

Is this still an issue with nightly builds?

Comment 7

[José Jeria]

I have now dual monitors and I can reproduce this, but this is how all the
window programs act, for example, open up IE and view source, it will also
appear on the first display, til you move it to the second and then, the next
time it will appear on the same place.

I dont think this is a Mozilla bug. INVALID?

Comment 8

[Anthony Young-Garner]

Attachment: Screenshot of dual-monitor menu positioning bug

In the image, a Mozilla 1.7.2 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803) browser is running on the secondary display on the
left. The file menu, when selected, pops up at the left edge of the primary
display on the right. No other application on the system exhibits this
behavior.

Comment 9

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 245418 ***