Closed Bug 265097 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Window doesn't open fullscreen

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 116503

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(Reporter: d.winsor, Assigned: bugzilla)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

The 'fullscreen' window command is ignored. This is a shame as it means that 
Firefox cannot be used in 'kiosk mode' like IE can. This mode is particularly 
useful when delivering multimedia on the web.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to URL http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/lskills/lcvt/city.html, select 'load 
tour' if necessary
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Incorrectly sized window opened (chops content).

Expected Results:  
Fullscreen window opened (ideally with no title bar, but certainly using all 
available screen space).
UPDATE:

I tried pressing F11 when in the non-fullscreen popup and now whenever I 
access a page with the "fullscreen=yes" javascript window attribute, it works 
OK!

Thought that might help if you find you can't replicate the bug.

Cheers.
this bug is a duplicate of bug 272241.
unfortunately i don't see the option to mark it as a duplicate, so i added the
bug as dependent of 272241. i think that's the best aproximation i have.
Depends on: 272241
I confirm that this bug is the same that "my" bug 272241. 
As this bug 265097 seems to have no other option than "leave as unconfirmed"
(which makes it unmanageable) I advice to go to bug 272241 where there are other
discutions.

Yes Dominic Winsor (Comment #1)  pressing F11 does the trick manually, but it
does not replace the real automated function. I have a webcomic having hundreds
of pages... would you bear to press F11 at each page? Worse many web users are
just beginners, or people who do not bother to learn many tips about computers.
I myself (although a computer technician) spent years before discovering the F11
tip. So automatic means must work, and window.open must work with all its
features, as it is the only mean to really manage window size.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116503 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
No longer depends on: 272241
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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