context menu drawn off screen after changing resolution

[positivek]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

The menus, context menus, and popup tooltips in Firefox are drawn over the edge of the screen after a change (reduction) in screen resolution.

1. Use the (high) native resolution of an external monitor hooked up to my laptop.
2. Start Firefox.
3. Use the "Display Preferences" (System --> Preferences --> Display) to simultaneously turn off the external monitor and switch to the laptop's internal monitor, at its (lower) native resolution.
4. The menus, context menus, Add-on context menus in the status bar, and status bar tooltip popups are drawn so they go off the screen when they are too close to the edge.

Expected behavior: FF should attempt to draw these items within the current screen if possible (i.e. use the "normal" drawing rules for popup items).

May be related to Bug #341870.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042523 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.10
Gnome 2.26.1

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

[positivek (anonyhole)]

That is, FF does not reset its screen limits for these items after a screen resolution change while it's running. However, after restarting FF, the new resolution seems to be respected. Nautilus, though, seems to handle the resolution change for its menus, so maybe it's specific to FF?

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

please test firefox-3.5 available in the archive.

Also test firefox-3.6 from our daily PPA: https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ppa ... if that problem can be reproduced there, please search for similar issues in bugzilla.mozilla.org and if you cannot find one file a new bug and give us your bug id so we can help your bug get properly on track there.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

oh ... also, please check if this issue goes away with compiz disabled. if thats the case then this is a dupe of bug 99740

[positivek (anonyhole)]

Desktop effects was disabled during my tests.

Firefox-3.5 seems to resolve the original issues.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090401 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5b4pre

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Wong Yong Jie (yjwong)]

Issue doesn't seem to be reproduced with Firefox 3.6.6, on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS with compiz either disabled or enabled.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]