218176 - Location bar misplaced when browser window is over an edge of the window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 147758

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Mrten]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827

the autocompletewindow is always 'on the screen', even when the browser itself
has been moved to the side.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open new window
2. make sure auto-complete is on
3. click in the location bar
4. move the window over the left or the right edge of your screen, such that the
location bar is partly non-visible
5. type something that you know will autocomplete

6. notice that the now popping-up autocomplete window is not attached to
location bar, but rather shifted to the left or the right, such that is
completely on the screen.

Comment 1

[Benedikt Kantus]

Thats also true for the trunk, at least build 2003090204 on Win2k.

Comment 2

[Jon Henry]

Could this be related to/the same as bug 211059?

Comment 3

[Mrten]

perhaps. note that i am not using firebird.

Comment 4

[Mrten]

Attachment: lo and behold! a screenshot of the problem

Comment 5

[Mrten]

if i lower the resolution to 1024x768, it still happens, you just have to move
the window farther to the left (seems moz likes to remeber the previous
resolution). im using 1280x1024 usually.

Comment 6

[Jon Henry]

Alright, I did some more testing and I can now reproduce this too, both in
Firebird and SeaMonkey. Now that I see what's happening though, is it really a
bug? I think, if anything, it actually enhances Mozilla. By pushing the
autocomplete suggestions over when they would normally be off the edge of the
screen, it lets you see the entire URL rather than having to guess from only
seeing part of it. To me, it seems like Mozilla was deliberately coded to do this.

Comment 7

[Mrten]

nah, it's a bug.

following that line of reasoning, you could argue mozilla should render webpages
outside its window when the window is not completely visible, too. 

Comment 8

[Andrew Schultz]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 147758 ***