249937 - Running fullscreen app at low res resizes all Firefox windows

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[D. Noha]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.8

When I run a Windows application that goes fullscreen at a low resolution (e.g.,
640x480 like most shareware games), every single open Firefox window, including
those that are minimized, shrink down to 640x480.

This is really a problem with Windows; however I have seen plenty of Windows
applications that behave better.  At a minimum, Firefox should probably ignore
resize messages coming in from the system if the window is minimized.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open 3 firefox windows; minimize one, maximize one, manually resize the third
to just smaller than the screen.
2. Run an application that goes fullscreen at 640x480.  The one I just used was
Rocknor's donut factory: http://www.bigfishgames.com/downloads/donutfactory/
3. Exit that fullscreen app and check out the Firefox windows.

Actual Results:  
All the Firefox windows were resized down very small, however their window
positions did not seem to change.  The minimized windows remained minimized; i
didn't see that they had been resized until I deminimized them.

Expected Results:  
Maintained original window sizes.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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