242483 - When viewing FTP directory Firefox only displays first 23 characters of filename

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Krueger Industrial Smoothing]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040501 Freebird/0.8.0+ (Krueger)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040501 Firefox/0.8.0+

When viewing an FTP directory, the filename column is formatted to a fixed width
of 23 characters, even if there is plenty of room for more.  

for example, at 1280 x 1024 resolution, my screen looks like this:  

http://www.lmhess.com/ftp.jpg

For files with long names, this makes finding the proper file more difficult
than necessary - you have to put your mouse over a filename and then look at the
status bar to see the entire name.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. View FTP directory listing
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Actual Results:  
Everything is scrunched over to the left side of the screen and only the first
23 characters of filenames are displayed.

Expected Results:  
Width of filename column should be determined by screen resolution, not some
arbitrary pre-set number.

Comment 1

[Jesiah S]

The URL you gave is a HTTP server.  It is up to the HTTP server to generate that
file not the web browser.
WFM @ 
ftp://129.79.5.133/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.8a1/
http://129.79.5.133/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.8a1/
using LInux 2004061405a