422071 - Full page zoom does not resize fixed size pop-up windows

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Farhad Daruwalla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008031004 Firefox/3.0b5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008031004 Firefox/3.0b5pre

Full zoom leaves pop up windows the same size rather than enlarging/shrinking them based on the full zoom multiplier.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Zoom in on the BBC News website
2. Open a video news clip
Actual Results:  
Content does not fit in the window.

Expected Results:  
Window should resize to fit content.

Can be worked around by resizing the window.

Comment 1

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

This will not block the final release of Firefox 3.

Comment 2

[Lucas Malor (mail: c6kfnkn2uc AT snkmail DOT c0m)]

I confirm.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008052406 Minefield/3.0pre

Comment 3

[Farhad Daruwalla]

This bug affects the user experience for those using full zoom and in particular those using devices with unusually large or small screens.  Should this bug block fx3.1?  Or possibly a future release?  Would this be trivial to fix?

Comment 4

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

This won't block, but I'll cc some people who might be able to help; I'm trying to understand why the site specific preferences don't apply here. Is it because the pop-up window is in a different domain?

Comment 5

[Farhad Daruwalla]

The pop-up is in the same news.bbc.co.uk domain and the window is being truncated.  Most BBC videos no longer open in pop ups but some still do.
For example when the zoom level is at 120%, the latest programme link on the andrew marr show home page opens a pop up window which is too small for its contents.

Comment 6

[Farhad Daruwalla]

Updated URL to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/andrew_marr_show/default.stm

Comment 7

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I'm trying to understand why the site specific preferences don't apply here.

They do apply, to the content inside the window. This bug is asking for us to scale the window itself to match the zoomLevel so that stuff still "fits". This would be pretty complicated to fix given the way the site-specific text zoom is currently implemented, unless we resized the window after the fact or something (which would be pretty hacky).

Comment 8

[Farhad Daruwalla]

1. IE behaviour
Behaviour in IE is even worse: you cannot resize the window at all, although unlike Firefox they have scrollbars to view the remaining content.  (This of course only applies if you increase the zoomlevel of the IE popup window as IE does not yet remember the zoomlevel per-site.)

2. Impact on users
Currently, new firefox users would be confused as to why they cannot see all the content (and no way to scroll), and more savvy users would need to resize the window every time

3. Implementation
Resizing the window after obtaining the zoomlevel sounds like a good idea, are there any reasons not to do this?  It seems like a good idea, especially given that any patch is likely only to impact those windows that have fixed pixel dimensions set.