251863 - Window positioning dual-head unfriendly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 135079

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Carlo Wood]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040211 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040211 Firefox/0.8

When firefox opens a new window on my dual monitor desktop, it always places it
on the left monitor (where are the coordinates 0,0). No matter where I have my
mouse, 
or what commandline parameters I pass - there is no way to get it to open the
window on my RIGHT monitor.  In effect, I have to drag EVERY new window from the
left to the right monitor which is getting pretty annoying after a few months.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a desktop of size 2048x768, using two monitors (I am using ndivia's
drivers with "TwinView" and an FX5200 card on linux).
2. Start fixfox, or when already running - open a new window.
3.

Actual Results:  
The right monitor is ignored as if it doesn't exist.


Expected Results:  
It should open the window on the monitor that the current firefox window is on,
or on the monitor that the mouse is on, or accept commandline parameters that
allow one to choose where to open it (I know that the window manager interfers
here, but it will NOT switch monitors if you ask it to open it entirely within
one monitor).

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

Are you really testing with 0.8? 

If yes, then this is a dupe of bug 135079, fixed after 0.8 and available in 0.9

Comment 2

[Carlo Wood]

Yes. I was using 0.8 because there is no rpm for fedora core 2
(or any other distribution) of version 0.9.

I now deleted the rpm and installed firefox 0.9.1, now it works.

Thanks

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135079 ***