Closed Bug 295970 Opened 20 years ago Closed 18 years ago

browser window width fluctuates

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: David.Margolis, Unassigned)

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Details

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

This happens in pretty much every page I try on my office (desktop) and laptop
computer (both Windows XP machines). The width of the browser window will
occasionally be set to something wider than the true screen width so that I can
no longer see the vertical scroll bar (fortunately the wheel on the mouse still
works for scrolling), for example, certain tabs (when many are open) or elemnts
that are flushed right on toolbars. I can't tell what triggers the resize, nor
why it sometimes goes back to the right width. This does not always happen
immediately, but it almost always happens at some point during the browser
session. It also goes back to the right width from time to time. It seems
completely random to me.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a web page.
2. Wait a bit?
3.

Actual Results:  
The page got wider.

Expected Results:  
Kept the window the same width.

I occasionally log into my computers using the Windows Remote Desktop service
from computers with different screen sizes, but it happens on the 1280x1024 and
on the higher (I don't have it here) resolution monitors (although on login the
window is properly resized, even though it starts to switch later in the session).
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050527
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005052711

WFM
Summary: browser window width fluctuates → browser window width fluctuates
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → EXPIRED
I believe I've found the source of the problem: Forecastfox. It seems that when there are a lot of things in the status bar and some weather item has a long description, the browser window width adjusts to accomodate the extra length, which sometimes makes the scroll bar unreachable, tabs disappear, etc... I'm up to firefox 1.5.0.1 now, and the problem is still there. The ForecastFox version is ForecastFox Enhanced 0.8.5.2, but problem occured with previos versins of forecastfox as well. Thanks to whoever is competent and is willing take this up (I don't know if it's an extension or browser issue).
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: EXPIRED → ---
FoxClocks causes a similar problem. When it is putting times in the status bar, Firefox thinks the browser window with is much wider than it really is. You can see this by popping up the browser-width when the page loads:

<body onload="alert(document.body.clientWidth)">

If is stop FoxClocks using the status bar, the problem goes away.

Thanks. I'm not sure how to do that, but I'm also a little less sure now that extensions are the source of the problem. (I had FoxClocks but uninstalled it, and I'm up to ForecastFox 0.9.0.2) For example, my browser window width was fine with just 1 (i.e. no) tab(s), but when I opened a new tab to read this bugzilla reply, the width got wider again and the scroll bar disappeared. Could that be extension related? In any case, thanks for taking another glimpse at this, I thought it had been left for dead and that I would be reduced to using the scroll wheel on the mouse to move around pages.

(In reply to comment #5)
> FoxClocks causes a similar problem. When it is putting times in the status bar,
> Firefox thinks the browser window with is much wider than it really is. You can
> see this by popping up the browser-width when the page loads:
> 
> <body onload="alert(document.body.clientWidth)">
> 
> If is stop FoxClocks using the status bar, the problem goes away.
> 


WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

There are numerous reports on Forecastfox's Bugzilla installation (http://bugs.ensolis.com) of this problem occuring with earlier versions of Forecastfox. If this is still an issue, you may wish to file a bug there.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago → 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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