422234 - Javascript function resizeTo broken

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Martin Bay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; da; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12
Build Identifier: Firefox 3 Beta 4

Javascript functions related to window size/location is not responding or being excecuted correctly.

Example:

window.resizeTo(1234,1234);

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create HTML page with above mentioned javascript
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Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Window should resize to given dimensions.

Comment 1

[Dan Cradler]

I reproduced this bug using XULrunner 1.9 3/11/08 nightly build. window.resizeTo() does nothing. Was working fine in our application using an earlier (beta 3) build.

Comment 2

[Dan Cradler]

Using Windows XP if that makes any difference...

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

This feature is disabled by default for security reasons, but you can allow it for specific sites (Tools > Options > Content > Advanced...).  This change was made in bug 412862 for Firefox 3 Beta 4, but it might be reverted for Firefox 3 Beta 5.

Comment 4

[Dan Cradler]

Is there a way to revert this behavior with a preference setting via XPcom? We are developing a stand-alone application with XULrunner and we need to be able to resize windows dynamically in a few places. Removing this by default seems a bit extreme to me.

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

> Is there a way to revert this behavior with a preference setting via XPcom?

For your use, the easiest workaround is probably to set the prefs to whitelist your app's domains.

Comment 6

[Dan Cradler]

I ended up creating a permissions.sqlite file (whitelisting our servers) with the FF3 beta and then copied it into the profile for my app. That works fine. I do think there should be a preference in prefs.js allowing developers to override this as is the case for other security settings - perhaps it should respect the value of dom.disable_window_open_feature.resizable.