691956 - self.resizeTo and window.moveTo not working in FF7

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 691693

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Carlos]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
Build ID: 20110928134238

Steps to reproduce:

I installed FF7 as requested by authomatic update nad now the javascript stopped working.

Right now this code is working perfectly under GoogleChrome, Opera, Safari, IExplorer but is not working either in FF nor SeaMonkey

This is the used javascript:
theWindowHeight = 400;
theWindowWidth  = 520;
self.resizeTo( theWindowWidth, theWindowHeight );
window.moveTo( ( screen.width / 2 ) - ( theWindowWidth / 2 + 10 ), 0 );



Actual results:

Nothing


Expected results:

The window should be resized and moved to the center of the user's viewport

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

If the window is not one that your site opened via window.open(), this is expected behavior; it was a purposeful change.

Or are you trying to resize a popup window?  That should work, unless you have Firebug installed.

Comment 2

[Carlos]

Boris,

The window is one opened via window.open() and yes, I have Firebug installed.

And the solution is just to disable all panels while testing or do I have to disable the firebug plugin in Plugins control panel?

I reinstalled FF 6 and will wait for your answer before reinstalling FF 7.

Thanks for your comment.

Comment 3

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

You need to disable firebug.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Carlos, Firebug has a bug in it where it pretends that its panels are tabs.  Disabling the panels doesn't help, unfortunately.

The Firebug folks are working on a fix for this.  Once Firebug 1.9 ships, things should work again.

Comment 5

[Carlos]

Thanks to Boris, and Robert, clear and timely help.