248552 - drop down box is too big on a dual monitor setup

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[davizzmo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8

i'm using a dual monitor setup.  when firefox is on the secondary monitor, whose
resolution is smaller than the primary monitor, the drop down box is too big and
goes off the bottom edge of the screen.  if i scroll down in the list, i can't
see the items at the bottom of the list

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open firefox to a page with a combo box
2. put it on the secondary display
3. position the combo box on the screen such that it has too many items to fit
4. drop down the box
Actual Results:  
the drop down box gets cut off

Expected Results:  
shortened the box to fit within the viewable screen, or opened it in the other
direction (up).

Comment 1

[Eric Chappuis]

Same bugs, 100% reproductible.
Happens also if the secondary screen is bigger.
Happens as long as the realtive botton of the secondary screen is higher that
the bottom of the main screen.
It probably use the big screen rectangle as seen in the URL provided by the bug
creator. http://www.the-elemental.net/~dave/firefox_bug.jpg 
XP SP2 / Dell Latitude D505

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 263251 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Attachment: Screenshot

Comment 4

[Craig Moynes]

I found a similar bug, not sure if it should be opened a new bug.
With firefox on the second monitor (bigger resolution or same resolution as
primary) the menu boxes appear on the right monitor (primary monitor).
Should this be a new bug, or similar to this one ?

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> With firefox on the second monitor (bigger resolution or same resolution as
> primary) the menu boxes appear on the right monitor (primary monitor).

That's bug 245418.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[davizzmo]

still a bug in 1.0.7

Comment 8

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #7)
> still a bug in 1.0.7

and in Firefox 1.5 beta 2 (which is what the auto-resolve mail asked) ?

Comment 9

[davizzmo]

Attachment: picture of a similar problem

there is a very similar bug when you drop-down a context submenu, such as the
web developer submenu.	if it's too close to the bottom, the menu gets all
squished.

Comment 10

[Noel Weston]

Still in 1.5.0.4

Comment 11

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Testing 1.5.0.4 builds isn't very useful, it's very unlikely to have been fixed on that branch. Testing a Bon Echo alpha or mozilla-1.8 or trunk build from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/ would be more useful.

Comment 12

[bfloss]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) 
Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6

Windows XP Home, Dell 700m Notebook
RCA 14” Television

I was able to duplicate this bug.  My primary monitor is my laptop, which is set for a resolution of 1280x800.  My secondary monitor is my television, set for 800x600.  When the combo box’s list is too large for the 800x600 screen, some of the list’s options become unreachable, appearing off screen.  One example is available at http://my.fit.edu/~bfloss/bug248552.JPG.

When I changed the resolution of the television to 1024x768, the resolution that matched the laptop’s as best as possible, the problem no longer occurred.  I was also unable to duplicate the bug with any other resolution settings.  I checked both monitors for the bug with all possible resolution combinations:

Television: 800x600, 1024x768
Laptop: 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x600, 1280x720, 1280x768, 1280x800

Comment 13

[Samuel Tai]

Attachment: My screen dump

I have two monitor. The primary one is 1280*1024. The second one is 1024*768. The drop down box detect the top margin of my primary monitor instead the secondary one when the application is opened on the secondary one.

p.s. the left-up conner of my second monitor is addressed at (1280,256) at my working space.

Comment 14

[Xavier Takvorian]

Attachment: Another avatar of this bug: unreadable select items

Comment 15

[Xavier Takvorian]

Same problem here:
 - primary screen 1024x768
 - secondary screen 1280x1024
The virtual desktops are set-up so that the lower boundaries are in line.

If the browser window is on the secondary screen, big dropdown lists will not be displayed entirely. They are just fine if I switch the FF window to the main screen.
I've attached a screen shot: "Another avatar of this bug: unreadable select items"

PS: I'm running FF 2.0 on Windows XP.

Comment 16

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Given the comments and the screenshots, I'm confirming this.

Comment 17

[david]

I have encountered a similar(?) problem with dual screens, where multiple Bookmark  sub-menus will not display.  It's only when the 2nd screen is set to be above the 1st (the 1st screen is a laptop, the 2nd is above).  It doesn't seem to matter what the screen resolutions are set to, only whether they are left-right (OK) or bottom-top (not OK).  It only happens when FF is on the secondary monitor (bigger, so that's the one i use for FF).

Running FF 2.0.0.14 on Win XP.

Comment 18

[Timothy Nikkel (:tnikkel)]

I think this should have been fixed by bug 503791. So a recent mozilla-central nightly build should have this working correctly.

Comment 19

[Stefan Weiss [:sir_none]]

I just made some tests on this topic and can't find problems any more

please feel free to reopen this bug report if you think it was closed wrong or you have a new case to reproduce this problem.