326431 - Different resolution Dual head causes tab problems

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 206435

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

You have two monitors set at different resolutions (eg 1024x768 and 1280x1024)
and you open ff on the smaller of the two.

Opening many tabs causes the tabs to flow past the edge of the window size, however this doesn't happen when using ff on the higher resolution screen.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Have two monitors on different res, with the larger as the primary monitor
2.Open FF on the smaller one.
3.Open many many tabs untill they fill the screen and then some
4.Keep opening tabs and watch as some of the last tab disappears off the edge of the screen.

Actual Results:  
tabs cut off

Expected Results:  
tab should not cut off

Comment 1

[guanxi]

Mark - FF2 handles tab overflow differently than 1.5. Does this problem occur in FF2.x also?

Comment 2

[Andy]

I can confirm this is a bug, and yes it is reproduceable every time.  quanxi: yes this happens in all versions of Firefox 2.x as well.  Here is some more information about the bug from my perspective:

1)  This also occurs if you lower the resolution of the screen Firefox is on, but *only* if there are enough tabs open to spread across the entire tab bar in the lower resolution.
2)  This happens commonly over remote desktop connection, since users generally use RDC at a smaller resolution than their native res at home.

The only way to correct the behavior without losing the current tabs is to kill FF from the process manager and then restore session.  This properly opens the tabs in the new resolution.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

see bug 62395 and bug 206435

duplicate?