280773 - Resizing the toolbar causes incorrect calculation of free-space causing items to incorrectly disappear

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Rich Wareham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When one has a crowsed toolbar (will attach image to show example) slowly
shrinking and resizing the Mozilla Firefox window causes the last few items to
be incorrectly considered not to fit on the toolbar and be relegated to a
separate menu.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a crowsed toolbar
2. Slowly shrink the window down to perhaps 100 pixels wide
3. Slowly restore to original size.

Actual Results:  
The bookmarks bar was relegated to a separate popup.

Expected Results:  
Toolbar was exactly as it was before shrink,

Comment 1

[Rich Wareham]

Attachment: Image showing before and after shots of toolbar

Created attachment showing what the toolbar looked like before and after the
resize. These /should/ be the same but aren't.

Comment 2

[Kyle Maxwell]

I believe this is the same as Fedora bug #160560 which I've recently filed. From
that bug:

I use the bookmarks toolbar for my most-frequently-used bookmarks, and as stuff
gets occasionally added to it, it grows to the point that bookmarks on the
right-hand side don't appear without using the drop-down tool.

After some time, of course, I go clean things up so that everything should fit
on the toolbar without needing the drop-down tool using the Manage Bookmarks
window. But even once those are fixed, whichever bookmarks were pushed off still
are not re-drawn on the toolbar until the window is resized, even by one pixel.

Reproduce by:
1. Add sufficient bookmarks with sufficiently long names that not all of them
can appear at once on the toolbar, but instead are pushed into a drop-down on
the right side.
2. Using 'Manage Bookmarks', rename some of these with smaller names so that
everything should fit on the toolbar.
3. Note that even though the bookmarks that were originally shown on the toolbar
are still there albeit with shorter names, those that were in the drop-down will
not get drawn on the toolbar itself until the windoww is slightly resized.

Comment 3

[lexual]

Can't reproduce with a recent nightly build on linux.

Comment 4

[lexual]

Can the reporter please advise if this problem still occurs for them with a recent Firefox version?

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported on Firefox 2.x or older, which is no longer supported and will not be receiving any more updates. I strongly suggest that you update to Firefox 3.6.3 or later, update your plugins (flash, adobe, etc.), and retest in a new profile. If you still see the issue with the updated Firefox, please post here. Otherwise, please close as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
http://www.mozilla.com
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+mode

Comment 6

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.3 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.