318374 - "Add Bookmark" dialog can become too large to resize

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Patrick Corcoran]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

It is possible through general usage of the Add Bookmark dialog to make it such that it is too large to be resizable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Ctrl-D to open Add Bookmark dialog
2. Stretch dialog to full height of your screen
3. Click Arrow to "Show all the bookmarks folders"
4. Close dialog (your settings should be preserved)
5. Ctrl-D again to open Add Bookmark dialog
6. Again stretch dialog to full height
7. Again click Arrow to "Show all the bookmarks folders"
8. Notice that the dialog exceeds the window height and cannot be resized down.  Since your settings get preserved, it becomes difficult to ever make this window smaller.




It would seem to me (empirically, not having looked at the code) that the math used to determine the total height of the dialog is adding extra n pixel height to accomodate for the bottom buttons.  It this situation where the usable area is already pushing the maximum size, this becomes a problem.

Comment 1

[Etienne Labonte]

Another such sizing annoyance is that you can reduce this dialog until you see only the title and the close (X) button.

I think minimum and maximum sizes are needed.

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 3

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

works for me with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007081105 Minefield/3.0a8pre ID:2007081105 and no feedback to comment #2

Reporter, feel free to reopen if you can see this bug with a latest release or trunk build