531833 - Check spelling window always opens in upper left corner of screen

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[David Gibbs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070604 Thunderbird/2.0.0.4 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0

After composing a message and clicking send, the spell checking window always opens in the upper left corner of the primary screen regardless of where the message composition window is.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable "Check spelling before sending"
2. Write a new message
3. Click Send

Actual Results:  
Check Spelling window opens in upper left corner of primary display

Expected Results:  
Check spelling window should open in a position relatively near composition window.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Can you delete the locastore.rdf file in you profile (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Localstore.rdf) ? to see if it fixes the issue ?

Comment 2

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Confirmed: when check spelling window start, don't remember previous position, but move always in top left corner of the screen

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091201 Lightning/1.0b1pre Shredder/3.0.1pre ID:20091201032021

Comment 3

[Chris Daley]

Also confirmed: deleted the locastore.rdf file, started Thunderbird 3.0, created a message & started spell check, moved spell check window, completed spell check, typed in some more mis-spelled words and selected spell check. Spell check window appears in upper left corner of screen rather than "where I left it".

Comment 4

[blainebb]

is there any work around for this?

Comment 7

[David Lingard]

Confirmed. Although this is classed as "Trivial" it is very inconvenient when I have Tbird on Monitor 2 (right hand screen) and I have to crane my poor ancient creaking neck to see the spell check far out top left ;-) Not a show stopper but a worthwhile fix to have the spell checker appear where I left it. Thanks

Comment 8

[Robert Arnold]

Same issues in Miramar 3.3 Alpha 2--I too have a dual monitor system based on a Nvidia card.  (Windows Vista 32)

Comment 9

[[e-mail]]

Same issue:  Two monitors, Thunderbird requires both to send mail.

Comment 10

[Lee_Dailey]

howdy y'all,

this still happens with Thunderbird 6.0 [Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110812 Thunderbird/6.0, Build ID 20110812055131]. 

the previous dialog position is totally ignored and the darned thing opens at 0,0 every time. it is _highly_ annoying with two monitors. [*grin*] 

also, i think this is a subset of Bug 544286 as that one covers all the sub-windows that do this. perhaps this bug should be duped to that one?

take care,
lee

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

It's unclear to me whether bug 544286 should block, or be blocked - so flipped the coin

Comment 15

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

linux bug 713640