Bug#562957: iceweasel: Iceweasel's tab restoration incorrectly handles browser window size changes

[Francis Russell]

Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.5.6-1
Severity: normal


I currently use xmonad as my window manager. This like a few other tiling window managers, automatically
chooses the size of new windows. I also use the Firefox option of restoring all my previous tabs when opening
the web browser. 

Let's say I have my browser occupying approximately 1/4 of the screen and then I close it. Later I reopen it,
and my window manager chooses to make it fullscreen. Iceweasel appears to have persisted the size information,
and despite the fact that the Iceweasel window is fullscreen, only the top left 1/4 of the window is actually
functional. Resizing the window causes Iceweasel to realise the window isn't the size it thinks and then
behaviour is normal.

I can reproduce this behaviour on a completely clean user account on my machine. However, I cannot reproduce
on the upstream 3.5.6 32-bit binary download from upstream. I believe this problem only started when 3.5
migrated into testing.

Regards,

Francis Russell


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils                   3.2.2      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  fontconfig                    2.6.0-4.2  generic font configuration library
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.3-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.18.3-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnspr4-0d                   4.8.2-1    NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.2-3    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  procps                        1:3.2.8-2  /proc file system utilities
ii  psmisc                        22.8-1     utilities that use the proc file s
ii  xulrunner-1.9.1               1.9.1.5-2  XUL + XPCOM application runner

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
pn  latex-xft-fonts               <none>     (no description available)
pn  libkrb53                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  mozplugger                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  ttf-mathematica4.1            <none>     (no description available)
ii  xfonts-mathml                 3          Type1 Symbol font for MathML
pn  xprint                        <none>     (no description available)
ii  xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support 1.9.1.5-2  Support for GNOME in xulrunner app

-- no debconf information