309561 - A small horizontal frame gets smaller by using several tabs

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Layout: Images, Video, and HTML Frames, defect)

Description

[Lars Plessmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728

I have a sample website with 2 frames:

<frameset rows="*,60" border=0 framespacing=0 frameborder=0 framespacing=0>
        <frame name="winMain" src="home.php" marginwidth=10 marginheight=10
border=0 framespacing=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=auto noresize>
        <frame name="winStatusbar" src="status.php" marginwidth=10
marginheight=10 border=0 framespacing=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=auto noresize>
 </frameset>


Use this frameset in the index.html file and load the file in the mozilla
browser, that does have a single tab an does not show the tab bar for 1 tab. For
2 tabs, the tab bar should appear.

Well, when I go to another page now, the frame "winStatusbar" of my first tab
has no more the correct height! It got smaller! I think the whole frame moved a
bit down, because its exactly the offset, the tab bar uses.
After a reload of the first tab, the frame sizes are okay again, but it's stupid
to reload the first tab all time, when I toggle between 1 and 2 tabs.

This is a bug since Mozilla 1.0 I think! Very old and should be fixed now.
This problem occurs on different websites, which use a horizontal statusbar at
the bottom.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Mozilla
2. Set Mozilla, not to show the tab bar by default
3. Load the page with the special frameset (look at "Details" for the html
frameset code)
4. Press Ctrl+T
5. Type in another URL like  www.google.com
6. Go back to the first tab
7. the tab ist now not 60px heigh, it has moved down
8. Reload the tab, to get the correct frame sizes again.

Actual Results:  
The frame is too small and has moved "down" by the size of the tab bar heigh.

Expected Results:  
The Framesizes may not have been touched by using tabs

This bug is very annoying when you toggle between 1 and 2 tabs and has to be fixed.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

worksforme with linux seamonkey 1.0 branch build 2005092420 and 1.7.11
can you attach a testcase?

also, the 1.7 branch isn't taking non-security fixes, so please test with a 1.8
branch or trunk build (SeaMonkey or Firefox) before reporting a bug

==> HTML/Frames

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this an issue with a recent build?

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

if you still see this problem in version 3.x, please comment.
if you do not still see the problem, please close as WORKFORME (or some other appropriate resolution)

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Please reopen this bug report if you can reproduce the problem in
Firefox 3.6.x or newer.