275395 - Overlays and secondary monitors...

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 314279

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Robert Banz]

When using OSX (10.3, all versions), Firefox (and, additionally, other versions
of Mozilla) have a misbehaviour when dealing with "secondary" monitors.

As a laptop user, who uses his laptop sometimes as a desktop, I frequently hook,
and unhook, another monitor to the machine.

This seems to cause some problems with Firefox (and Mozilla).  If the
mozilla/firefox window is moved to the secondary display, "overlay" boxes, such
as the history pull down in the url bar and alt-tag popups on images and such
appear on the primary display.

I've seen this on all versions of firefox/mozilla builds -- from way back in the
day, just finally gotten around to reporting it. (I'm a big slacker) This sort
of behavior also happens with thunderbird, as well. 

How to replicate:
Start application in a "single monitor" configuration.
Plug in the secondary screen.
Drag application to secondary screen.
Use one of the "affected" features. (e.g., url-bar history browser 'zilla or 
   firefox, View: quick-search pulldown thing in thunderbird ), and it
   should appear on the "primary" monitor, and not the "secondary".


Enjoy ;)

-rob

Comment 1

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 245418 ***

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan]

This was not fixed by bug 245418 and now is being tracked by bug 314279.

Comment 3

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 314279 ***