327205 - Default window size should be updated on window close, not window open

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 331408

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[jpotter]

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

Firefox currently updates its default window size whenever a new window is opened. This is very annoying, because if a popup window is opened, or an existing window is resized by a script, the default window size is automatically changed.

FF should instead only update its default window size whenever a window is closed. That way, the user can control the default window size by closing popups first and then closing the original window (or, if only a popup is open, they at least have a chance to open a new window at their preferred size before closing the popup).


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse to a site that opens a new window with a specified size, or resizes the current window
2. Close the resized window
3. All future FF windows now adopt the new size automatically

Comment 1

[jpotter]

Actually the Steps to Reproduce can be even simpler:

1. Resize your current window
2. Open a new window
3. The new window adopts the size of the current window

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Marking WONTFIX because:

1) If the sizes of popups influence the sizes of new user-opened windows, *that* is the problem (and not the fact that users can't work around that by carefully closing windows in a certain order).

2) If I resize a window and open a new one, the new one should be the same size as the just-resized window.  I shouldn't have to close a window just to make my preferred window size (temporary or permanent) "stick".

As for (1), WFM with some simple JavaScript that opens a new window with a specified size.  If you can reproduce, please file a new bug about that issue (giving a URL if necessary, and clear steps to reproduce).  I tested using using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060210 Firefox/1.6a1.

Comment 3

[jpotter]

Here is a URL that for me, in FF 1.5.0.1, resizes the window to full-screen. If that was your only FF window open then hey presto, you've suddenly lost all trace of your carefully selected default size.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_fullscreen?video_id=iVI6xw9Zph8&l=210&fs=1&title=Multi-Touch%20Interaction%20Research

Setting the default window size should be a definite action (with, say, a "Save Default Window Size" menu command, just for a radical suggestion). It should not happen automatically.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

I agree with you that JavaScript resizes affecting the default window size is a problem, but both of the solutions you've proposed (in the summary, "default window size should be updated on window close, not window open", and in comment 3 and bug 331408 comment 0, adding a menu command for setting the default window size) are WONTFIX.

Instead of marking both of your bugs as WONTFIX, I've changed the summary of bug 331408 to what I think would be a more sane solution, and I'm marking this as a dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 331408 ***