267401 - Window does not resize from javascript

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Philip Lunn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

Clicking "Normal (video only)" tries to resize the window. THis does not work
with the default settings in Javascript. This seems an important feature, to be
able to make the BBC player as small as possible, and made me view in IE so I
could see it as I wanted.

I would have thought this had been discussed at length in bugzilla, apologies if
it has, cannot find anything on search.

Suggest that web-page spawned windows can be resized by Javascript. I completely
agree that no site should be able to resize my own windows, but if the site has
spawned it I am happy that it has this control in this "sandbox" of its own
window. I argue that in this situation the user expects the site to manage its
own window, and a failure to allow this makes Firefox look unprofessional.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to news.bbc.co.uk
2. Open the video console
3. Click "Normal (video only")

Actual Results:  
Layout changes, window size does not change.

Expected Results:  
Window size changes

I appreciate this is perhaps an opinion-based matter, and apologies if it has
been covered before, but IMHO Firefox appears incorrect to a user using default
prefs by not allowing what in a sense is a basic "web app" ability.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Mark D Young]

I have also noticed this bug since upgrading from 1.0.7 to 1.5b1 when trying to
resize windows with my own JavaScript on my website.

Another URL to see this problem is http://alan.tip2tail.co.uk/photos.php?albumid=1
Chick on any of the photos there and it will popup a window that should resize
to the image width and height (plus a bit for the description).  It did in 1.x
but not in 1.5b1.  It also works in IE.

Is this bug getting worked on?

Mark D Young
tip2tail design

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

This is an option in Options->Content->Advanced

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan]

WFM - Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051013 Firefox/1.4.1

Look at the 'Allow scripts to:' section of
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/options#webfeatures most likely you
changed the setting for 'Move or resize existing windows'

Comment 5

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

WFM as well using Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Mac OS X and on Ubuntu 6.10. Resolving as such.

If you're able to reproduce this bug using Firefox 2.0.0.3 or later and a clean profile, please reopen.

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