223118 - Requested Pop Up Window Too High to fit on screen

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Karl Tipple]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031002 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031002 Firebird/0.7+

On a number of sites where I have requested addtitional information that appears
in a pop up window, the window is substantially higher than the screen/Firebird
window.  The above site it typical:  If you go to that URL and click on the
second box down on left "Animated NBC 5 Storm Track", the resulting window will
open substantially higher than the screen/Firebird window with no scroll bar so
that once cannot see the bottom.  This is disasterous if one is trying to click
"continue" as I was trying to do on a tech help site the other nite.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Click on http://www.nbc5i.com/weather
2.  Click on yellow box seond down on left marked "Animated NBC 5 Storm Track"
3.  View window that is much higher than screen with no scroll bar.
4.  Problem can almost be worked around by pressing F11; but not quite.

Actual Results:  
Requested Pop Up window is too high.

Expected Results:  
Should have sized Pop Up window to fit on screen

I have posted this on the Firebird bug discussion forum and there have been a
number of other people who responded that observe the same problem.

Comment 1

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Worksforme with a self compiled nightly build from 2003-10-19 and the
0.7-release build on WinXP.
Please try this again using a fresh profile (see
texturizer.net/firebird/faq.html#profilemanager) and without any extensions.

Comment 2

[Bob Firth]

javascript call is:
onclick="popUp('/wxmappopup/1493916/detail.html','width=640,height=640');

if your screen res is (for example) 800x600 then this will be too tall. It's not
mozilla's fault that the page asks for a window that is too big. ;) suggest
resolve INVALID.

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Not a bug, Firebird only does what the page tells it to.
-> INVALID