263415 - windows are moved and resized when the preference "web features:advanced:move or resize windows" is disabled

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Douglas Godfrey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

windows are moved and resized when the preference "web features:advanced:move or
resize windows" is disabled 

The web site moves and resizes windows even if the preference is disabled.

If you use about:config 
dom.disable_window_move_resize is set to false even though the checkbox
in the preference "web features:advanced:move or resize windows" is disabled 

setting dom.disable_window_move_resize, dom.disable_window_flip and
dom.disable_window_open_feature.location all to true prevents the 
windows being resized and moved



 



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to
<http://www.wickedweasel.com/contributors/2004-5/round3/ari/default.asp?n=7>
2. click on the 4th image
3. move the window and then click on next or previous
4. the window moves back to the initial location



Expected Results:  
the windows should not be resized or moved if the preference
"web features:advanced:move or resize windows" is disabled

Comment 1

[Dan M]

WFM. The picture window with the <<prev and next>> links doesn't even contain
script attempting to move the window. It does contain script attempting to size
the window. With script allowed to move and size windows, the window sizes
itself but makes no attempt to move. With script disallowed to move or size
windows, the window neither sized or moved. At no time was the value of the pref
anything other than what I'd set it to be.

Honestly I've never heard of Firefox changing the value of one of these prefs on
its own. However I have heard several reports of extensions doing just that.

Comment 2

[matt]

I've been noticing this too. This site resizes the browser window even when the
preferences say not to: http://www.thering2-themovie.com/

Did a fresh install of the browser with no extensions, and the problem still
occurs. Made the change in about:config, and now the behavior is correct.

I've also noticed several onunload popups; a different bug, certainly, but also
something that my javascript preferences should have prevented.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Sounds like a bug in the prefs dialog in Firefox.

Comment 4

[Hiro]

wfm.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050204
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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