279145 - Loss of resize, maximize widget if browser.startup.homepage has an empty value

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 303836

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Socratis Kalogrianitis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050119 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050119 Firefox/1.0+

The resize handle on the bottom-right corner is not visible and the maximize
button on the top left is grayed-out.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Download the 20050119 nightly build (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X
Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050119 Firefox/1.0+)
2. Launch Firefox
3. Observe missing resize handle on bottom right and disabled maximize window
button.

Comment 1

[Socratis Kalogrianitis]

The "Window"->"Zoom" works as expected...

Comment 2

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

well, wfm on the same build...
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050119
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 3

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

can you attach a screenshot?

Comment 4

[Socratis Kalogrianitis]

Attachment: Screenshot of the problem

Comment 5

[Socratis Kalogrianitis]

OK, it's a profile issue. I renamed the "Application Support -> Firefox"
directory  and with the newly created profile that Firefox created upon restart,
there is no problem. I'll try to figure out what's causing the widgets to
dissappear.

Comment 6

[Socratis Kalogrianitis]

I figured it out! Reproducibly! The symptom appears if for startup page you have
an empty string (not the "about:blank", but ""). The preference in the prefs.js is:

user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "");

Changing this either from outside or from within Firefox fixes the problem.
Really weird this one...

Comment 7

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

oh, i see this.

Comment 8

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This should be fixed in 1.5 Beta 1

Comment 9

[Socratis Kalogrianitis]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 303836 ***