265256 - Modal dialog boxes should be a fixed size

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[David Janes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041019 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041019 Firefox/1.0

In Windows most modal dialog boxes are non resizable.

Firefox has some dialog boxes which are resizable, most notably options and page
info.

A simple change in browser.js, and maybe a couple of other files, removing
'resizable' or 'resizable=yes' fixes this problem.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. On Windows go to Tools | Options
2. Resize the dialog box
Actual Results:  
You can make the dialog any size. It doesn't look good.

Expected Results:  
Nothing

I know some themes require large dialog boxes for different fonts/layouts but
that should be defined in the theme.
Non modal windows are obviously not affected.

Comment 1

[Ross Shannon]

Not sure how sound the rationale is here, but would like to see what others think.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

a) Page Info isn't modal.
b) There is no point to restricting what users can/cannot do in this manner. 
The various exceptions dialogs (image blocking etc) need to be modal because of
the design of the options dialog, but resizing adds value and loses nothing.
c) "Just because" is never close to a reason for restricting functionality where
there is no technical reason why its a bad thing.

Comment 3

[David Janes]

I agree it would technically reduce functionality _slightly_ but currently it
looks inconsistent and frankly a bit amateurish.

Either this should be fixed or bug 250436, as having resizable windows without a
resize handle is not very polished.

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

resize widgets are a much better solution than restricting user capabilities. 
period.