Closed Bug 245018 Opened 20 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Tools-Options dialog does not save it's size.

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(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
minor

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RESOLVED INVALID

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(Reporter: afontes, Unassigned)

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040528 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040528 Firefox/0.8

Every time you go to the tools-options dialog, you must re-size the dialog.  The
default size is not wide enough not to have to horizontally scroll in some of
the option windows.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto Tools->Options, resize the dialog, Click Ok.
2. Goto Tools->Options, dialog size is back to default.

Actual Results:  
Dialog size back to default.

Expected Results:  
Dialog should retain new size.

Running under Windows XP.
Can you attach a screenshot? The original size seems to be fine for me.

As for it not saving its size. I think this is probably intentional.
I have the same problem. The window remembers its position but not its size.

This is not a problem for the standard install.

However if you use themes with different sized fonts or extensions that add
extra entries in the options/options window then they will go off the side of
the window. Meaning you will have to resize it all the time since it dosnt
remember its size.

My setup is WinXP, FF 0.9.2
Confirmed using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3)
Gecko/20040920 Firefox/0.10

I'm using Noia theme and most of the time, the dialog box is not big enough when
options are selected so scrollbars appear. As the dialog box is resizable, this
is not a real problem, but the size should be saved.
confiming...I dont have the same issue with the need to horizontaly scroll but i
the options pane does not remember size.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040925
Firefox/0.10
Flags: blocking-aviary1.1?
The new prefpanel may change this, if after that lands this is still an issue,
please renominate.
Flags: blocking-aviary1.1? → blocking-aviary1.1-
The new prefs panel on the current trunk now has a fixed size on windows, right?
So I suggest this is WONTFIX.
#7 is right, the new pref panel makes it even worse as it's not
resizable/scrollable at all.
The issue with wrong default size is different, and a few bugs are filed about
it. This one is invalid, unless developers agree to make the dialog resizable again.
*** Bug 294682 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I disagree with Nickolay.
Of course, the dialog should remain be resizable.
I suppose even some plugings/extension might add their own settings and thus an
inner panel in there. This size is unpredicatable.
Extensions should have their own prefs, we even provide an easy way to do so in
the extension manager.

I'm not sure whether this is really useful/desirable on Mac, though GNOME etc
let you resize windows whether they should be or not. :)
Attached image Options form to small
This is using Windows ME and i have the same problem although, i have not got the option to scroll down the page so am stuck, i cannot scroll down inside the form box.
This is when i go Tools --> Options
It does not matter which web page i am on
sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change
QA Contact: mconnor → preferences
Attached image Size bug in FF 2.0
Shows the options window size bug in FF 2.0
The size bug is still there, FF 2.0, Win XPsp2 (see attachment "Size bug in FF 2.0").
The bug is only visible if you've made changes to the windows theme or created your own windows theme, or changed windows font size, system scroll bar size, system title bar size, windows icon size and that sort of things.
Restore the original windows theme and this bug goes invisible, no need to restart windows or FF or anything, just apply the theme.

I hope this bug gets fixed very soon.
Assignee: bross2 → nobody
(In reply to comment #6)
> The new prefpanel may change this, if after that lands this is still an issue,
> please renominate.
(In reply to comment #7)
> The new prefs panel on the current trunk now has a fixed size on windows,
> right?
> So I suggest this is WONTFIX.

=> invalid for the original report, options is longer resizeable so not a valid bug

for issues about options not fitting all the text:
- bug 283697 should have fixed height issues - fixed in firefox 3
- bug 394791 for width issue is still open
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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