349121 - javascript:window.resizeTo from the URL bar is broken

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Bug 317819 disabled window.resizeTo() and window.resizeBy() for tabbed browsing.  All well and good.  However, it also disabled window.resizeTo and window.resizeBy for users at the URL bar.

This is a DOM Level 0 regression.

Steps to reproduce:
(1) Open SeaMonkey 1.0.4, Navigator window, maximized.
(2) Type in the URL bar:

javascript:resizeTo(400,300);

(3) Hit the Enter key.

Expected results:
Navigator window resizes to 400 by 300 pixels.

Actual results:
Navigator window remains maximized.

Note this works in Firefox 1.5.0.6, due to bug 309251.  Also note bug 144069.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

In my opinion, we should wontfix this.  We can't tell the "from the url bar" case apart, really, and the number of users who would ever want this to work is about 0.  If you need this for testing, change your prefs in the testing profile.