459459 - Opening a new window on a second monitor results in a window height of the primary monitor

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Steve Steinitz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3

I browse the web on a larger second monitor.  When opening a new window Firefox ignores my previous window height in favor of using the primary monitor height.  The result is I have to manually increase the height of each window I open.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. New Window
2. Move Window to Second Monitor
3. Resize to desired height (and width)
3. Close Window
4. New Window
Actual Results:  
New Window will correctly appear in Second Monitor and have the correct width but will only be height of primary monitor.

Expected Results:  
New window should be the height of the previously closed window (or whatever Firefox's algorithm is for determining window location and size) even if opened on a second monitor.

Safari has the correct behavior.

Comment 1

[Mark D.]

This bug is related to 413364

Comment 2

[Benjamin Tauer]

Confirmed.  I have the same setup with an secondary monitory larger than the primary monitor, and this bug is a continual annoyance. Firefox on the secondary monitor resizes itself back to fit withing the vertical constraints of the primary monitor, even when it is opening on the secondary monitor and should ignore the primary monitor vertical size.   Quite annoying if you have this setup.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Tauer]

Still broken in Firefox 3.5 Beta 4

Comment 4

[gboen53]

I can repro this in Windows Vista as well. Along with the bug the bug where correct monitor isn't saved when Firefox is closed Maximized (bugs 264030, 462743, few other dups/variants), these window position/size bugs are quite annoying! 

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6 GTBDFff GTB7.0

Dupe of Bug 463379? Or do we track platform bugs (Mac, Windows) separately?

Comment 5

[Benjamin Tauer]

Works for me correctly now in Firefox 3.5.7

Comment 6

[Mark D.]

I've tested this on OSX with Firefox 3.6.2 beta, and it's not fixed.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2

Comment 7

[Steve Steinitz]

I concur with Mark D.  There has been no change in the new window size behavior on Firefox for Mac OS X (10.6.2).

Comment 8

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of Core bug 396379?

Comment 9

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later in a fresh profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). Also update your plugins (flash, adobe reader, java, quicktime, silverlight, etc.) Go to the developer's website and download the latest version from there. If you no longer see this issue, please close this bug as RESOLVED, WORKSFORME. If you do see the bug, please post a comment.

Comment 10

[Steve Steinitz]

Retested as requested.   Result: no change.  

I did notice that the zoom button zooms to full size on the second monitor - not restricted to the height of a smaller main monitor but I'm not sure if that was ever a problem.

However, this sequence does not work as expected.

    move window to larger, second monitor
    change its height to be taller than the smaller main monitor
    close the window
    open a new window

Result: the new window correctly appears on the second monitor but its height is that of the smaller main monitor.  Note that repeating the above steps work correctly for any height less than the main monitor.  i.e. something is restricting the height to that of the main monitor on window creation.