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

[Francis Russell]

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.

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.

Francis