269001 - minimized window will come back up, but not maximized

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 269033

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Aaron Slunt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When Firefox is directed to another page while minimized, the window will
appear, but not maximized if previously maximized before being minimized.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set your normal window size to something that you can notice a change from
maximium size, maximize the window, and then go to http://turkeybot.info/glitch.php
2.Immediately minimize the window, and wait 15-30 seconds for a redirect to occur

Actual Results:  
The window appears, but it's not maximized.

Expected Results:  
Window should've reappeared, but maximized.

Comment 1

[Jeffrey Arcand]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Expected Results:  
> Window should've reappeared, but maximized.

Two issues are addressed here.

"Window should've reappeared, ...":
    I disagree, the window should stay minimized; there's a reason why it was
minimized in the first place.  If you have a page that is refreshing itself with
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" ... />, the window just keeps poping up unwantedly.

"... maximized.":
    I agree, when the Firefox is minimized, and it is given focus again, it
should return to the state it was before being minimized.  If a third-party app
launches a URL in Firefox, the window seems returns to previous state, but if a
third-party app lauches a file in Firefox, the window goes to the 'restored'
state and not the previous state.

Comment 2

[Aaron Slunt]

But I do believe the window should show itself, to alert the user in a change in
firefox's state, for pure security reasons.

Comment 3

[Jeffrey Arcand]

(In reply to comment #2)
> But I do believe the window should show itself, to alert the user in a change in
> firefox's state, for pure security reasons.

I don't see how this could be a security issue.  If you trust a site enough to
visit it, then you should be able to trust whatever it redirects to.

If Firefox were to un-minimize itself everytime a page redirects/reloads, then a
page that reloads itself every 30 seconds or so (to get updated content) would
be always stealing the focus of whatever else you are doing and THAT WOULD BE
BAD BAD.

If it is important that Firefox lets the user know of page redirects when it is
minimized, then maybe having the Firefox task button on the task bar flash a few
times or something.  If that weren't possible, then using the download complete,
MSN style, alerts could be an alternative.  Either way, Firefox should not steal
to the focus or prevent someone from continuing what they were doing.

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Jeff, can you still reproduce this? I can't seem to.

Comment 5

[Aaron Slunt]

I can still reproduce it

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050305
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 6

[Jeffrey Arcand]

I can no longer reproduct the window restoring itself on page redirect (I've
upgraded to 1.0.1 since the last time I reproduced it, maybe it was fixed?) but
I still can reproduce the window restoring itself when it should be maximized. 
To reproduce this all you need to do is:
1- Open firefox in maximized view.
2- Minimizme the window.
3- Open an external link or open a local HTML file (Firefox must be in
tab/window reuse mode).
4- Watch the window pop itself back up in restored view and not maximized view.

Comment 7

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 269033 ***