642443 - Open new window from seconday monitor

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 632749

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Frederic Gaus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

I'm using Firefox 4.0rc1 on my Mac OS X 10.6.6. I have an iMac with an additional monitor attaced. This additional monitor is my primay monitor, the iMac-Monitor is on the left side of the primary montior. 

When the Firefox window is on the monitor on the left side (=> the secondary monitor) opening a new window is not possible. The function "view sourcecode" is not working either. Moving the Firefox window to the right (=> primary) monitor, everything is working correctly. 

Furthermore: Closing the Firefox on the left screen makes reopening impossible. A restart is needed. 

This error also appear in safe-mode. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Move the Firefox window to the left monitor of your primary monitor
2. Choose "File" > "New Window"
3. Nothing happens
Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
A new window

Comment 1

[nifty02]

I'm having the same issue, using my second monitor as the primary monitor. I noticed that if I set my iMac to be my primary monitor, everything works as expected.

Comment 2

[nifty02]

This bug is still persistent in the latest Firefox 5.0 beta.

User-Agent: "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:5.0b1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0"

Comment 3

[Trip Gilman]

I had the same issue.  I have been using 4.0.1 for a while with no issues using a secondary monitor that was the same resolution (1920x1200) as the primary.  I recently replaced that monitor with a new one, but it operates at a different vertical resolution (1920x1080) than the primary.  When I arrange the monitors (through display preferences) so that the tops of the screen areas are aligned everything works perfectly.  If I have the secondary monitor offset in any way vertically, to the side but the top is above or below the primary monitor top edge this behavior occurs.  ASCII art ensues...

Works perfectly:
---------------  ---------------
|Secondary    |  |Primary      |
|             |  |             |
|             |  |             |
---------------  |             |
                 --------------- 

Missing new windows:
                 ---------------
---------------  |Primary      |
|Secondary    |  |             |
|             |  |             |
|             |  |             |
---------------  ---------------