252666 - need preference to disable staggering of new window positions

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Widget: Mac, enhancement)

Description

[Marc Bejarano]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

when a new window is opened, mozilla creates it with a staggered position such
that the new window is down and to the left of the last opened one in a cascaded
fashion.  there should be a pref to turn this feature off so that people with
limited screen real estate can have all their mozilla windows in the same place.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

Seamonkey doesn´t need a preference for this, as Seamonkey doen´t open new
windows staggered

->Firefox->Preferences

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

it doesn't? current trunk nightly of Seamonkey suggests otherwise.  This is a
window manager deal, afaik.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 5

[Marc Bejarano]

this bug causes special annoyance on mac due to bug 130872

Comment 6

[Colin Barrett [:cbarrett]]

New windows are opened on the Mac staggered, as per the Aqua Human Interface Guidelines. It's what a well behaved Cocoa or Mac application does.

Comment 7

[Marc Bejarano]

this is an OS=All bug.  cupertino does not dictate for the world ;)

Comment 8

[Colin Barrett [:cbarrett]]

Oh, my bad. I thought it was a mac bug (since it was linked from another bug talking about Mac stuff).

Apologies.

Comment 9

[Marc Bejarano]

i don't understand the purpose of the "Core Graveyard" product.  i think this is still a valid bug worth addressing.  do i need to move it to a different Core component?

Comment 10

[Marc Bejarano]

i'll put it back to core until somebody shines the light of enlightenment on me :)