524950 - Firefox remembers a reduced window size when booting even if the window was restored to full size before exit.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 236100

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[scott092707]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3

Example: say I reduce the window size to drag a picture onto the desktop, and then restore the window to full (or at least larger) size.  After Firefox is shut down and then some time later rebooted, the window comes up at the reduced size, not the size it was when Firefox exited.

Example: once in a while either Firefox or a website to which I navigate alters the window size to less than full size (in other words, it was not I who changed the size).  I naturally restore the size to what I want, but from then on, whenever I boot Firefox, that window comes up at the reduced size. 

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
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Seems to happen every time (I currently have a window that I must maximize every time Firefox loads), but I have not actually tested it (by creating a new window, making it smaller, maximizing it, shutting down and rebooting Firefox) 
as shutting down and restoring take too much time.
This has been happening for quite a while - it's not new.


Expected Results:  
Firefox should use the current window size at exit as the window size to use when booting.

It gets annoying when I have several windows that I must maximize whenever I boot Firefox, but since the solution is merely to click on the window-maximize button, it's been something I could live with.
Since it keeps on being something that is not fixed, I figured I'd submit it, as probably other people are also annoyed with it, but are also living with the workaround rather than bother to report it.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Do you see the same in safe-mode / with a new profile?
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#Make_a_new_profile