329699 - Space between menu and title bar with remote desktop login

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[roadiron]

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

Windows: When you have Firefox open, log into the system with Remote Desktop. There will be a space between the menu bar and the top of the window. It remains when logging in physically at the computer. This is reproducable every time. The remote desktop connection is at a different resolution.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox
2. Log in with Remote Desktop
3. Resolution may have to change

Actual Results:  
Space appears between menu and title bar

Expected Results:  
No space

Resolution change does not cause the issue

Comment 1

[marcas]

I think this is the same bug that I see (see attachment 'browser_space.jpg') of a print-screen of this page), but with normal PC login, and the space doesn't appear immediately.  I've not yet managed to catch it happening (is it a particular site I visit?).

When the space appears, I sometimes notice two other effects:
 - when highlighting bookmark entries with the mouse, the blue highlight bar flickers
 - the web page extends unaccessibily beyond the right edge of the browser window

Comment 2

[marcas]

Attachment: Attachment to accompany submission to bug 329699

Attachment to accompany submission to bug 329699, space between title and menu bars

Comment 3

[Radoslav Bielik]

Is there any plan to fix this bug? It's really annoying for anyone who is using remote desktop on a daily basis and makes the otherwise excellent browser almost unusable (thank god for the Tab Mix Plus extension with its session saver, which makes restarting much easier).

I can confirm both symptoms, reproducible always after a remote desktop connection:
1. the space between the titlebar and menubar (not so much of a problem)
2. the width issue, where the browser is locked to a certain width, and if you make it smaller, the vertical scrollbar, as well as everything on the right edge of the toolbar, will disappear.

I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.2

Thanks,
Rado

Comment 4

[(no longer active)]

I also confirm this bug.  Bug #343132 is also related to this bug.

Comment 5

[Zoran Milojevic]

duplicate of bug 316858?

Comment 6

[Radoslav Bielik]

Just to add more info, this bug is still there in Firefox 2, and it doesn't happen only when using Remote Desktop, but also when using "Fast User Switching" (i.e. 2 users logged in to the computer at the same time and switching between their accounts without logging out)

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Do you see this with the newer RDP?   Remote Desktop Connection (Terminal Services Client 6.0), documented in microsoft KB925876

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

No response, but this WFM. So => WFM.

Comment 9

[Radoslav Bielik]

I just did a quick test on Vista Business with Firefox 2.0.0.14, using Remote Desktop, and coudln't reproduce this bug anymore - don't know if it's Vista or Firefox, but I guess it might have been resolved in the meantime.