300378 - Dual head display with Firefox on the second display, the fastfind drop down listbox always appears on the primary display

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 314279

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Marcus Crafter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Hi All, hope all is well. I've got a second display connected to my powerbook
with Firefox running inside of that display. When I type a URL in to the address
text box at the top of Firefox, the fastfind drop down text box that normally
appears underneath the address text box, always appears in top right corner the
primary display - and not underneath the address box where you would normally
expect it.

Also, menus that are normally shown with a right click over a webpage also
appear at the top right corner of the primary display, even though Firefox is in
the second display.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Mozilla, move it to the second display
2. Type in an address in the URL text box

or

1. Start mozilla, move it to the secondary display
2. Right click over a web page.

Actual Results:  
In the first case, the findfast text box appears in the primary display rather
than under the URL text box in the second display.

In the second case, the popup menu appears in the second display, rather than
where the mouse is, over the webpage in firefox, on the second display.

Expected Results:  
Findfast text box should appear in the secondary display below the URI textbox.

Context menus should appear in the secondary display where the mouse is.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Ive never come across this issue. What graphics card do you have and are you
using any special software for managing the multiple displays?

Comment 2

[Marcus Crafter]

Hi Dave,

I've got the latest 17" G4 Powerbook. Have seen both effects using OSX Pather
and Tiger. The video card in these systems is an "ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 with
128MB of DDR SDRAM and dual-link DVI" (copied directly from Apple.com). No extra
software is in use other than the default included in OSX itself.

The second display is a Dell E172FP, which is horizontally aligned to the right
hand side of the Powerbooks display. Vertical alignment of the second display
has it about 50% higher than the Powerbooks display.

Hope that helps somewhat? Happens all the time for me.

Cheers,

Marcus

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

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

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan]

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

Comment 5

[Kevin Brosnan]

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