476680 - getting a horizontal scroll bar on the first run page

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Seth Spitzer]

getting a horizontal scroll bar on the first run page

my screen is 1680 x 1050.

I haven't confirmed it, but see this code snippet:

if (screen.availWidth >= 1600)
  defaultWidth = (screen.availWidth / 2) - 20; 

http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=mozilla/browser/base/content/browser.js&rev=1.1033#755

I think that might be setting my default width to 820 px.  (that seems right,
if you look at the screen shot, https://bug436884.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=325591)

If sites are typically optimized for 1024, do you think that when the
availWidth is >= 1600, we should make sure the defaultWidth is never smaller
than 1024?

something like:

if (screen.availWidth >= 1600)
  defaultWidth = Math.max((screen.availWidth / 2) - 20, 1024);

spun off of bug #436884

Comment 1

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

We already filed bug 420525 :-)

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

(In reply to comment #1)
> We already filed bug 420525 :-)

Although, that's just a pre-determined size, rather than a client-side code fix, I guess.