354453 - Search bar, location bar demand more flex than Flexible Space

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Leszek Zyczkowski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl-PL; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060918 Firefox/1.5.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl-PL; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060918 Firefox/1.5.0.7

Inserted 'Flexible Space' to any toolbar not working.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

*** Bug 354455 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Can you give any more information on this.

What toolbar are you inserting it to?
Does the regular space work?
What else is on the toolbar?

Comment 3

[Leszek Zyczkowski]

(In reply to comment #2)
I moved location bar to main toolbar and try add flexible space to toolbar between icons and search bar. I used this in 1.5.xxx and working fine, search bar is going to the right side. In 2.0 RC1 and pervious releases 2.0 ,search bar increase width, not flexible space. Regular space work properly.
 

Comment 4

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Ok the problem is that the search bar was made flexible and its more eager to eat space than the flexible space. I'll confirm this as an issue.

Comment 5

[Leszek Zyczkowski]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Ok the problem is that the search bar was made flexible and its more eager to
> eat space than the flexible space. I'll confirm this as an issue.
> 
The same behavior is with location bar. Location bar eat space.

Comment 6

[Peter Kasting]

Ultimately, the solution here may be for the searchbar to be only manually resized (not auto-flexing), and for the location bar to flex.

One shorter-term solution to this would be to try and scale down the flex factors of the search and location bars, so that the flexible space has more usefulness when placed alongside one of them.

Comment 7

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 357956 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Pierre Goiffon]

Workaround : use a userChrome.css file
More details here : <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#app_searchbarsize">http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#app_searchbarsize</a>

Comment 10

[Leszek Zyczkowski]

You don't understand this bug. This bug is that the search bar was made flexible and its more eager to eat space than the flexible space. I have not problem with search bar size.

Comment 11

[Pierre Goiffon]

I did create Bug 365215 because one of the effect of the search bar new behaviour (its size is flexible and between flexible space and search bar the last one win and takes all the available width) is that when it is placed in the menu bar (which contains a flexible space) then it takes a big big width. I've always use Firefox with the search box placed in the menu bar, and updating to version 2 I had the surprise to see the search box width so huge !

So for my problem the workaround I indicated works just fine. Now, I let Mozilla gurus decide what to do for the product : keep the search box width flexible and add a "priority system" with the flexible space, or anything else. For me as a simple user the problem was discovering in this new version the search box width far more important than before.

Comment 12

[Leszek Zyczkowski]

Any idea? This bug have 3 years, and bug is still actually. Who correct this issue?