295691 - Tabs and toolbars not on screen edge on fullscreen

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[nukhead]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

I'm surprised I can't find this reported before; I wouldn't be surprised if it's
a dupe.

When you enter fullscreen mode, toolbar icons aren't clickeable on the very edge
of the screen, which is much easier (infinite area) than having to aim them.

Now, the way I have it configured (no bookmarks and no navigation toolbar;
address bar in the menu bar), if I enter fullscreen mode I have true fullscreen
(no UI elements). If there's multiple tabs open, they show. But these tabs have
to be clicked carefully; the upper edge of the screen won't suffice. The same
goes to the [X] button for "close tab", but that seems much more intentional,
and is a theme issue.

NT4 had the same problem with the taskbar. On XP, the workaround is actually
moving your mouse pointer over the buttons when you click on the screen edge...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

I have also noticed this. If you see the lower edge and right edge of the
window, it does not re-render these areas. Can anyone else confirm?

Keyword => qawanted

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.

Comment 4

[mmortal03]

This bug needs to be reopened, as it is still completely valid.

Comment 5

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

Reopening per comment 4.

Comment 6

[mmortal03]

Can this bug please be fixed for 2.0?  The only toolbar remaining that needs to be fixed is the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder.  This should be VERY easy to fix before 2.0.  

Also, The Search Bar's Magnifying Glass Button darkens when you place your mouse all the way to the right edge of the screen, but it is not clickable.  So, either it needs to NOT darken when your mouse is placed there, or it needs to be clickable from there.  The latter choice fits under the management of this bug, while the former choice should have a bug report created for it, if the developers decide to NOT have it accessible from the right side screen edge.

Comment 7

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 8

[mmortal03]

The bookmarks toolbar seems to be fixed when I checked it briefly in safe mode with my userChrome.css removed.  

However, the leftmost tab is not selectable from the left edge of the screen when there is no tab overflow, (when there IS tab overflow is a different issue), without making userChrome.css modifications, due to a xul:spacer being present, named "tabs-left".  This xul:spacer should be removed, because it is a functionality compromiser, and doesn't serve any greater aesthetic purpose.  It doesn't serve the "discoverability ideal" and it compromises ease of use.

Also, the Search Bar's Magnifying Glass button still needs to be fixed, per Comment #6.  

Comment 9

[Steve England [:stevee]]

We should probably agree to close this bug, and then you should refile one bug for each problem against Firefox 2.0 so that they are fresh. But that's up to you.

Comment 10

[mmortal03]

I disagree about closing this bug, based on the title.  Its title serves the proper purpose.  I do agree that it should be clarified what specifically this bug entails.  In my opinion, it should entail the tab bar.  I can make a separate bug for the Search Bar's magnifying glass.

Comment 11

[mmortal03]

Also, regarding tabs-left, another idea is to leave it in, make clicking it select the left most tab, and make its width a variable ranging from 0 to 9 pixels. This would solve the functionality problem, would leave any aesthetics intact, and would also allow for visible tab width divisibility issues to finally be correctable for everyone by using it as a spacer to remove any pixel remainders, now that we have the maxWidth option.

Comment 12

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

Please use a recent version of Firefox, available at
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/, and report back with your results in
relation to this bug report. (bug cleaning)