307947 - Preferences Window too small on Linux - height is too small on some tabs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 283697

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Christian Wolf]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

The Preferences window is too small on Linux with Fx 1.5b1.

Privacy and Advanced don't fit at all, Downloads is missing the bottom line of
the last group box.

It's especially bad for the privacy tab, the Settings button for the Clear
Private Data Tool is (almost) invisible.

Resizing the window helps, but the (new) size is not saved between invocations,
so when I re-open the Preferences-Window it has the default (too small) size again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Preferences Window

Actual Results:  
Window is too small

Expected Results:  
Window should have correct size to show all controls

Comment 1

[Christian Wolf]

Attachment: Screenshot of Privacy tab

See especially the bottom where the Settings for Clear Private Data should
be...

Comment 2

[james.bugzilla]

Duplicate of Bug 283697

At least be glad that Linux users have been able to manually resize the new
Preferences since Feb.25 Trunk nightlies, well actually Feb.28 when it displayed
right, unlike window users.

what intersesting is that for me, the last couple of branch nightlies had the
perfect sized Preferences for no matter what gtk theme used... shrugs.

You could force a specific size so everything shows in preferences by putting
this in the userChrome.css located in your Firefox profile. Adjust width and
height numbers as needed, though I only need to use the width.

#BrowserPreferences {
  width: 43em !important;
  height: 40em !important;
}

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 283697 ***