381496 - Dual monitor user experience

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[/\/\arcio Galli]

K I see many bugs filed with dual monitor and I am sorry I could not through all them. This is also a follow up of a discussion e-mail with Chofmann. 

If I have a FF on the right monitor, then I launch Downloads, Addons, and the other links in Tools, it goes on the left monitor. I know this is tricky discussion but I think it needs a review at least for the basic flows. 

Visinote demonstration of the end-user experience. 
http://www.visinote.com/meet/1116806149619/polish_ff_2_dual_monitor_support.html

Comment 1

[-fullmetaljacket-]

i can reproduce this problem. firefox open by defualt on my 2nd monitor (bug 264030) but when i open ff dialog box (ex Add-ons dialog box), it open on my 1st monitor.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090504 Minefield/3.6a1pre ID:20090504044532

Comment 2

[Chris Tolley]

Not sure if I should open a new bug, but there seem to be a lot of dual monitor issues.  I'm running Mac OS X 10.6 on Macbook Pro laptop with 2nd monitor.  If I put any firefox 4 windows on the 2nd monitor, attempts to open new windows (not tabs) fail.  They appear to be open from the "Window" menu pulldown, but even when selected via that menu, they are not visible.  If I move all the visible Firefox windows to the primary display, I can open new windows but the invisible windows are still invisible.  I disabled all plugins, but no change in behavior.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Not sure if I should open a new bug, but there seem to be a lot of dual monitor
> issues.  

yeah, probably no need for new bug. see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?type0-1-0=anywordssubstr&query_format=advanced&value0-1-0=primary%20secondary&field0-1-0=longdesc&short_desc=monitor%20screen%20primary%20secondary&field0-0-0=short_desc&short_desc_type=anywordssubstr&longdesc=monitor%20screen&type0-0-0=anywordssubstr&value0-0-0=menu%20popup&resolution=---&longdesc_type=anywordssubstr&product=Core&product=Firefox

in fact this bug should probably be duped

Comment 4

[sjw]

Or using this as a meta bug?