748874 - Window contents cropped horizontally when resized to smaller than toolbar minimum

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 428939

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[mrmr1993]

Attachment: Demonstrates the resizing bug under an appropriate toolbar setup

When the firefox main window is resized horizontally to smaller than a toolbar's minimum width (the sum of the minimum widths of the displayed contents), the contents of the window stop resizing and are simply cropped at the right hand side.

In my browser, this occurs when the navigation toolbar is visible, and it contains the back/forward buttons, the address bar, the search bar and one or more 3rd party addons (presently WOT button, Flash Video Downloader button and Facebook Translate button). It appears to have something to do with minimum/fixed widths of toolbar items, which prevent the toolbar shrinking horizontally beyond a certain point. The attached HTML document demonstrates this, and displays a message when the error has occurred.

My preferred fix would be to set "overflow: hidden" in the style for toolbars (assuming that this is applicable), and, if it is accessible, to disable the min-width css property for the toolbars themselves (not their children). This way, the toolbar content overflow will be hidden by the toolbar itself, and not by a window glitch.

The obvious alternative fix, to disable horizontal resizing to narrower than the widest element, is an definate regression in functionality, and should not be considered.

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

Maybe related to bug 526924 and bug 428939