470469 - When using 2 monitors, Firefox does not recognize when second monitor is disabled.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Arni Gunnar Ragnarsson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/1.0.154.36 Safari/525.19
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

I have a laptop computer which is sometimes hooked up to an external display. When I have that display on, I have the FireFox browser on that display.

When I go home, I put the computer to sleep, don't shut it down, with all programs still open.

When I open the computer again, and don't have the second display plugged in, Firefox is hidden from view.

I have to right click the program in the task bar, and select move. Then use the arrow keys to move the browser to the main laptop display.

When i click the file browser dialog from any webpage, when I am uploading files for example, the dialog appears on the disabled display and there is no way for me to move that dialog to the laptop display.

The only thing I can do is close Firefox down, and restart the program.

It seems like Firefox still thinks the other monitor is in use.

I have UltraMon running on the computer if that helps any ...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Hook second display to laptop and start Firefox.
2. Put firefox on the secondary display.
3. Put computer to sleep and unplug secondary display.
4. Open computer again to see that Firefox is nowhere to be seen.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Thank you for this report. However, in order to make it more useful, please follow the steps found at http://quality.mozilla.org/bug-writing-guidelines and report back with your results.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Thank you for this report. However, in order to make it more useful, please
> follow the steps found at http://quality.mozilla.org/bug-writing-guidelines and
> report back with your results.

tyler, was there something specific you are hoping the reporter will supply?

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Specifically, new profile. i think.

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.x or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.