Closed Bug 24062 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

Window persistance suggestion

Categories

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
XUL
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 13208

People

(Reporter: sitsofe, Unassigned)

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Details

If you visit a site such as real.com which opens a popup window, and that pooup
window is the last window to be closed, Moz remembers that windows size and
comes up irritatingly small. I think Moz should only remember the sizes of
windows that the user opens themselves.

On a similar note, if you make your window manager remember Moz's window size
then Moz will no longer resize popups correctly. Netscape 4.6 also has this
problem...

Build ID: Linux 2000011313
The first issue is a known issue; I'm almost certain there is an open bug
report on it. Pending a reply to the question below, this should probably
get marked a DUP of that bug.

The second issue is something else.  sitsofe@yahoo.com, to be perfectly
clear about this, are you saying that if you make a window manager remember
Mozilla's windows size, *all* new Mozilla windows, even those created by
javascript to have a certain size, come out the same size, the size specified
in the window manager?

If so, there may be nothing that can be done about that: Like any other X app,
Mozilla asks the X server to create new windows, and if the X server ignores
the size requested, then it ignores it, and nothing Mozilla can do will change 
that. Note that Mozilla should remember its own size, so when issue 1 is fixed, 
there should be no need to have a WM remember it.

>...to be perfectly clear about this, if you make a window manager remember 
Mozilla's windows size, *all* new Mozilla windows, even those created by 
javascript to have a certain size, come out the same size, the size specified 
in the window manager?

That's right.

>If so, there may be nothing that can be done about that: 
Fair enough. Do you want to set this as invalid or duplicate?
It seems that the window size has not been persisting at all on Linux, 
based on bug 17799, "[PP] Window size not remembered on Linux", NEW, M14.

sitsofe@yahoo.com, can you check this out? From what you report in the 
first paragraph, Mozilla is remembering the previous size at least when
it shouldn't - is it remembering it when it should (closing a normal window, 
restarting)?

Still looking for the bug on remembering small window sizes...

It's interesting you should say that. Although I when filed the bug this was a
problem, about two days ago Moz stopped turning up in a tiny window and always
reverted to a regular size. I've just tested it and it seems that Moz is not
saving the tiny windows anyomore... Sorry.
OK, the main issue from the first paragraph is a DUP of bug 13208, 
"Popups confuse navigator.xul persistence", ASSIGNED, M15. Marking as such.

sitsofe@yahoo.com, thanks for checking, I guess that's one more bug yet to be 
fixed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13208 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Component: Browser-General → XP Toolkit/Widgets: XUL
QA Contact: nobody → paulmac
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Blocks: 13208
No longer blocks: 13208
VERIFY duplicate
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: XP Toolkit/Widgets: XUL → XUL
QA Contact: paulmac → xptoolkit.widgets
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