591596 - Wrong AwesomeBar dropdown menu display in offscreen windows

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[tdba.316]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100827 Minefield/4.0b5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100827 Minefield/4.0b5pre

the menu of the awesomebar is not displayed correctly when a window is off the screen

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.drag the minefield off the screen so that a part of the AwesomeBar cannot be seen.
2.type some words in the bar so that the drop down menu will appear
3.observe the way the menu is displayed
Actual Results:  
the menu is not directly down the awesomebar

Expected Results:  
the menu should be displayed directly down the awesomebar, even when it's going to be displayed offscreen.

Comment 1

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Popups don't appear off-screen -- this is a feature, not a bug.

Comment 2

[tdba.316]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Popups don't appear off-screen -- this is a feature, not a bug.

no, i wasn't talking about popup menus, but the browser window itself

Comment 3

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

You said "the menu should be displayed directly down the awesomebar, even when it's going to be displayed offscreen", but this is intentionally prevented.

Comment 4

[tdba.316]

http://bayimg.com/aAoJLaaCL

but wouldn't this be a little but weird?

Comment 5

[tdba.316]

http://bayimg.com/aAoJLaaCL

but wouldn't this be a little bit weird?

Comment 6

[tdba.316]

Attachment: Screenshot of the problem