424324 - Session restore remembers windows position and size

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Session Restore, enhancement)

Description

[Craig Francis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030317 Firefox/3.0b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030317 Firefox/3.0b4

When restoring a session, rather than opening all the windows at one size in a cascading position, would it be possible that the location and size of the windows also be restored - like how Safari re-opens all windows from last session.

For example, I always have about 4 windows which always have the same location... for example my calendar which sits on my secondary monitor at 100% width and 70% height, while the web based email client sits behind it at 70% width and 100% height, while the window with phpMyAdmin sits top/left on my main display, and the main development window sits top/right on my main display.

Its not a major issue, but every time I restart Firefox (install/enable/disable extensions, software upgrades, etc), it means that I have to re-size and re-position all the windows.

Sorry if this is a duplicate, but the closest I can find is:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145941

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Simon Bünzli]

On Windows, all but one windows are restored to their correct places/sizes (that one window not being correctly restored is bug 343352). So, either this is a Mac specific issue or a DUPE of bug 343352.

Comment 2

[Craig Francis]

It is kind of mentioned in bug 343352 (Comment #3), but if it works in Windows, then perhaps the code for setting the window size/position hasn't been written for OSX yet.

Comment 3

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

this is WorksForMe on 10.4 with a single screen. reporter can you confirm that this happens on a single monitor?

Comment 4

[Simon Bünzli]

Closing as INCOMPLETE due to a lack of an answer to comment #3.