Firefox child windows width too small (german version)

[bernstein]

Some of the Firefox windows (for example the window in Firefox Preferences > Content Tab > Extended FontConfig or Download List or the restore session...), but not all, are too small. Meaning that the right part of the window gets cropped off.
By resizing the window I can access everything, but the new size doesn't get stored...
I am using the (Swiss) German version of Ubuntu Edgy, installed via Internet. No extensions installed. This occurs on a fresh installation too. Problem has occurred in Dapper too, and on other computers as well. (Screenshot with small Preferences window: <http://launchpadlibrarian.net/7123637/Screenshot.png>)

In English version the Preferences window has the correct size at 10pt fonts. If 8pt fonts are used, some boxes get truncated. If 14pt fonts are, some boxes get too big. It is possible that the Preferences window size has it's predefined width:height ratio. The width is based on fonts size and the height is calculated using the mentioned ratio, which leads to truncated/too big boxes in case of small/big fonts.

[bernstein (bernstein)]

confirmed. see here too : https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ticket/3311
attached an image illustrating the issue

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Confirmed by support ticket. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ticket/3311

[Peter Berry (pwberry)]

Dunno if it's related, but I have found for a long time that Firefox's preferences dialogue often opens at a size too small to hold everything in it. This is the English version.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

heres my screenshot next to Peter's for comparing the 2.
Mine is feisty firefox version 2.0.0.3+1-0ubuntu1

[Peter Berry (pwberry)]

My fonts are all at 8pt. Looks like it only gets it right if the fonts are at 10pt. Even then the 'warning messages" section of the security tab is too small.

This is Feisty with all updates installed as of now (so Firefox 2.0.0.3).

[Peter Berry (pwberry)]

s/too small/truncated/

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 02:05:24AM -0000, Peter Berry wrote:
> My fonts are all at 8pt. Looks like it only gets it right if the fonts
> are at 10pt. Even then the 'warning messages" section of the security
> tab is too small.

How do you set fonts to 8pt? Are fonts in the preference dialog
really smaller compared to when you set 10pt?

 - Alexander

[Peter Berry (pwberry)]

System -> Preferences -> Font. Yes, they are smaller.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

I guess we need a tester. If there is not enough info for testing, feel free to call for testcase work (tag: mt-needtestcase)

[Saša Bodiroža (jazzva)]

I set all fonts to 8pt. After that the "System Defaults" section of Main tab and the "Warning Messages" section of the Security tab are truncated.

[Saša Bodiroža (jazzva)]

No need to set all fonts to 8pt, just Application font. Also, it seems that the width of the Preferences dialog is related to the font's size and that there is default width:height ratio which is used for calculating the height. Apparently, the calculated height in the case of 8pt font is not large enough.

[Saša Bodiroža (jazzva)]

Now I'm pretty much sure about that default width:height ratio... I set application font to 14pt and now there's some extra space on Main and Security tab. With 10pt fonts there's just enough space, and with 8pt some stuff gets truncated.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 04:33:43PM -0000, Saša Bodiroža wrote:
> ** Tags added: mt-confirm
>
> ** Tags removed: mt-needtester
>

Thanks for you initial triaging ... can you put the most relevant
infos into bug summary and move this to "Confirmed" "mt-eval" ?

Thanks,

 - Alexander

[Saša Bodiroža (jazzva)]

The description is updated. Status changed to Confirmed and tagget with mt-eval.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Is this still occurring on a recent version of Ubuntu?

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

No reply for over 7 years
Removing assignee to allow bug report to expire

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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