Bug#562957: iceweasel: Iceweasel's tab restoration incorrectly handles browser window size changes
Mike Hommey
mh at glandium.org
Wed Jan 6 17:37:19 UTC 2010
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 05:29:56PM +0000, Francis Russell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't believe this is due to something xmonad-specific. I have just
> also managed to replicate the same behaviour under ratpoison. Just to
> confirm, this problem requires that the browser has persisted the tab
> state as this appears to be where the window size information is also
> persisted.
>
> Which tiling window manager are you using? There's the possibility that
> it's interacting with the browser window differently. I'll see if I can
> replicate under that one.
awesome.
> It appears that enabling the private browsing mode also uses the same
> tab-persistence mechanism. So I can replicate by making the iceweasel
> window small, switching to private browsing, making the window larger,
> then switching back to normal browsing. Under a non-tiling window
> manager such as gnome, it appears that switching back to
> non-private-browsing causes the browser window to alter itself back to
> its original size. This sounds much like the case you describe where a
> page itself resizes the window as in both cases the browser has
> attempted to resize itself and has assumed success.
Have you tried to get other applications to resize themselves, to see if
the WM handles them better ? (I don't know if there are other applications
that do resize themselves, though)
Mike
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