Firefox doesnt remember geometry (and position) of window

[michelem]

Binary package hint: firefox

If I start a firefox I aspect that it will open with last geometry/position window, but this doesnt happen.
I installed firefox-gnome-support but no way.

[Chris Burgan (cburgan)]

Thanks for your report.

This isn't really a bug but more of a feature request so I will mark it as wishlist.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Can you please give us the version of ubuntu and the full version of firefox. see apt-cache policy firefox.

This seems to be related to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314809
can you please confirm this is your issue Michelem? If not do you see your exact issue at: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=window+position

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

This doesnt seem to be a wishlist bug but more of a annoying bug.

[michelem (michele-marcucci)]

I'm sorry but the "bug" isnt more present when I upgraded to Feisty Fawn, so I dont know what was the version in Edgy when i submitted the report.
Now the geometry is correct but not the position, it always start at 0,0, the version is:

firefox:
  Installed: 2.0.0.1+1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.0.0.1+1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.0.1+1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Doug Holton (edtechdev)]

I am seeing this bug with Ubuntu Feisty.

Close firefox (or thunderbird) and open them again, and they do not appear in the same place they were.

I saw these instructions from 2006 for some kind of "advanced window settings" option in gnome, but there was no such option when right clicking on the title bar of a window or clicking on the title icon:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-36505.html%3C/t-199815.html

I was going to report it as a firefox/thunderbird bug (missing feature), but they apparently explicitly don't include the window saving/loading state code in their unix builds, since "since "unix types seem to prefer that Mozilla not override the window positioning provided by their window managers":
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31086

So the question is, is there still some kind of "advanced settings" where I can have gnome remember window positions, and where are they. Please enable the saving of window position by default in Gutsy if the functionality is already there.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 02:46:54AM -0000, DH wrote:
> I am seeing this bug with Ubuntu Feisty.
>
> Close firefox (or thunderbird) and open them again, and they do not
> appear in the same place they were.
>
> I saw these instructions from 2006 for some kind of "advanced window settings" option in gnome, but there was no such option when right clicking on the title bar of a window or clicking on the title icon:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-36505.html%3C/t-199815.html
>
> I was going to report it as a firefox/thunderbird bug (missing feature), but they apparently explicitly don't include the window saving/loading state code in their unix builds, since "since "unix types seem to prefer that Mozilla not override the window positioning provided by their window managers":
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31086
>
> So the question is, is there still some kind of "advanced settings"
> where I can have gnome remember window positions, and where are they.
> Please enable the saving of window position by default in Gutsy if the
> functionality is already there.
>

For me gnome doesn't remember position of windows at all ... though I
just tried with gnome-terminal.

Does it work for you for non firefox applications?

 - Alexander