Closed Bug 339648 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

One of a set of multiple tabs can resize the whole window affecting all the tabs

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 144069

People

(Reporter: constantine.gaspar, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

If multiple tabs are opened and one of the tabs resizes the window, eg popups are notorious for this, then the whole window is resized.

If more than one tab is opened then the window resize function should be disabled as is really doesn't make any sense to allow the resize for 99.999% of the cases.

At best there should be an option to disable tabs from resizing the window. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. put this bit of HTML into a file:

<html><head><title>Resize window page</title><script type="text/javascript">window.resizeTo(400,400);</script></head><body><p>Hello small world!</p></body></html>

2. Open firefox with a few tabs and then open this file in a new or existing tab.

3. It will resize and you can understand the frustration someone might have with this 'feature';
Actual Results:  
The whole window resizes, against all reason.

Expected Results:  
If there was only one tab then OK. But for multiple tabs open it is silly and time wasting.

You might want to know that IE7 beta does this as well, so here is a chance to get one tiny step back on them.

PS  I've installed IE7 beta and I like firefox's look and feel better, however I am tempted by IE becasue it seems to be very much faster.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144069 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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