269100 - Tab-Bar reduces the viewing size of a frame

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Christian Skalic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

The scrollbar is reduced by the Tab-bar if you have multiple websites opened.
Now when youre viewing a website with frames it is not possible to scroll to the
bottom of the frame (statusbar hides the content).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. viewing a websites with frames
2. scrolling down in the frame
3.

Comment 1

[Christian Skalic]

Steps to Reproduce:
1. opening a site with frames
2. opening a new tab (can be empty)
3. scrolling down the frame site

Comment 2

[Gary van der Merwe]

This looks like a problem with the theme you are useing. Do you experence the
problem with the default theme?

Comment 3

[Gary van der Merwe]

Sorry - The above coment was meant for another bug.

Comment 4

[José Jeria]

Can you please clarify the steps to reproduce this bug?

Comment 5

[Christian Skalic]

1. Open Firefox
2. Open a site which uses frames (one fixed, one scrollable)
3. Open a new tab (which can be empty)
4. Switch back to the frame site
5. Scroll down the frame
6. If there is text at the very bottom of the frame, it wont be showed because
the Statusbar hides it.

Comment 6

[David H. Gutteridge]

I have experienced this problem with several sites, including one I maintain.  
The correct behaviour would I think be to add a scroll bar because the entire
frame at the bottom can no longer be displayed.

The workaround for this (at least in Windows) is to click on the
maximize/restore down button for the window; when the window is rendered again
the bottom frame is no longer truncated.

I don't know if this situation exists in Linux/Unix/MacOS, I can test this out
at home tonight with NetBSD and XFree86.

I can supply some HTML files that will demonstrate this problem, but it would
depend upon the screen size I imagine...

Comment 7

[David H. Gutteridge]

It's obvious I don't work with frames often, my comment below about adding a
scroll bar isn't too helpful when frames have scrolling disabled, which they do
in the case of my site...  (Though this does seem to happen with frames that
have scrolling enabled too.)

I'm attaching three files to demonstrate the problem: bottom.html, main.html,
and top.html.  Save them, open main.html, look at the bottom of the screen, then
open a second tab, move back to the original tab and look at the bottom frame,
it should be truncated.

Comment 8

[David H. Gutteridge]

Attachment: Part of a frameset to demonstrate the problem

Comment 9

[David H. Gutteridge]

Attachment: Part of a frameset to demonstrate the problem

Comment 10

[David H. Gutteridge]

Attachment: Part of a frameset to demonstrate the problem

Comment 11

[[e-mail]]

Christian, David - your reported Firefox versions are too old a build
to analyze bugs against now. The problem you are reporting may well have been
fixed already and actually seems to be in a recent build.

Could you please download a recent version or nightly build from 
<http://www.mozilla.org/releases/nightly.html>, and then let us know if you 
still see this problem?

Many thanks,

Cigno

Note: WFM. Firefox 1.5.0.1 ID:2006011112 (Win XP).

Comment 12

[[e-mail]]

Still WFM, now for Firefox 1.5.0.3 ID:2006042618 on WinXP.

Since there has been no reply to comment #11 ==> WORKSFORME. 

The reported Firefox version(s) are too old a build to analyze bugs against now. The problem you are reporting may well have been fixed already.

Could you please download a recent version or nightly build from <http://www.mozilla.org/releases/nightly.html>, and then let us know if you still see this problem? If so feel free to report back and ask for the bug to be reopened.

Many thanks, Cigno

Comment 13

[David H. Gutteridge]

Sorry, I wasn't in the CC: field for this bug, so I never received the follow-up prompts from Cigno above.  I can confirm I no longer encounter this bug with Firefox 1.5.0.11 on Windows 2000 or 2.0.0.3 on Windows XP.

Dave