404075 - Firefox's window resize causes a large browser's screen area loss

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[AlexMark]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9

Seems like Firefox can't handle properly resizing and maximizing its window between javascript and the user.

Reproduce the steps I wrote down with the Url I sent and you will see Firefox cutting out from the available web page area every space was previously cut out from javascript's resize

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Make sure you are in a web page (the "Back" button must enable in the next step)
2.Navigate to http://dinamico.unibg.it/ctd/matgen/int/Frame3.htm and you will see Firefox's window resized by the page's javascript. The "Back" button enables.
3.Maximize Firefox's window and press "Back" button, you will see a large area unresized. 

The larger the area cut off the initial resize is, the larger will be the area Firefox can't redraw
Actual Results:  
Firefox could not use the entire web-page view area and cut off with a gray space a lot of his screen preventing me to resize the window again (I could only close the affected tab to restore sizing)

Expected Results:  
Firefox had to effectively maximize his window and use all the web view area available instead of cutting a large area off.

I use no themes for Firefox neither for Windows Xp. 

And I think none of my add-ons is relevant for this problem.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

This is most likely a bfcache issue. When I set browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to 0 this doesn't happen.

Comment 2

[AlexMark]

But what's the link between browser cache and resizing area?

Comment 4

[Gábor Stefanik]

Not specifically tied to Windows XP, also happens on Windows 7.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Do you still see this problem using the newest versions of Firefox (3.6)?

pretty sure I've seen another bug on this - not sure if older or newer.

Comment 6

[Gábor Stefanik]

Well, the testcase in bug 472061 still reproduces it in 3.6.

Comment 7

[Petruta Horea [:phorea]]

The testcase attached here no longer works and the tc in the duplicate bug 472061 doesn't change the browser window.
Considering its been a long time since the last update on this issue and there is no reachable test case to investigate this further, I'm closing this as Incomplete.