303836 - Nulling the home page location causes the first window to be unmaximisable (Maximize button disabled)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

This one's weird.

If browser.startup.homepage is void, the first browser window opened each time
Firefox is started is unmaximisable. The Maximize button and Control menu
command are disabled; Windows will not Tile, Cascade or Size the window. The
resize grippy in the statusbar does still resize the window. Subsequently opened
windows are maximisable.

To reproduce:
1. Set browser.startup.homepage to "" (blank), e.g. by using the Options dialogue
2. Restart Firefox
(Maximize button is disabled.)
3. Right-click Firefox's titlebar
(Maximize and Size are disabled.)
4. Minimise any other open windows and right-click the taskbar
(Tile and Cascade Windows are disabled.)
5. Open a new Firefox window
(The new window maximises and resizes as normal)

Workaround: set browser.startup.homepage to "about:blank"

Comment 1

[Aaron Slunt]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050805
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005080512

Confirmed, and adding that it puts firefox into full-screen mode for me.

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

This is a regression. It worked in the 2005-01-17 build, but fails in the
2005-01-18 build.
I think it is a regression from fixing bug 276588.

Comment 3

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

Requesting blocking1.8b4 because I suspect a fair number of users will clear (or
have previously cleared) the homepage location field, get the blank page they
expected and later become confused as to why Firefox won't maximise.

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Attachment: reset home page pref to default on startup if there's no value

Discussed with beltzner, we agreed this is the right course to take.  If
someone wants to open a blank homepage, they can click the button.

Comment 5

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Just one question: isn't this a bug in the toolkit command-line handling, perhaps?

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

there might be an additional issue, but this patch is still necessary.

Comment 7

[Socratis Kalogrianitis]

*** Bug 279145 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Socratis Kalogrianitis]

This should have been a duplicate of bug 279145 which was opened back in
Jan/2005, but since this report has some discussion and action taken, I'll close
the other one as a duplicate.