Firefox not remembering Window size and position between close and restart

[Martin Wildam]

Firefox is not remembering the window size and position between close and restart any more.

It worked during my last tests before release of Oneiric - so this must be broken since one of the latest updates.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: firefox 7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: mwildam 1652 F.... pulseaudio
BuildID: 20111008085056
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf6afc000 irq 46'
   Mixer name : 'Intel Cantiga HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:111d76b2,10280263,00100302 HDA:80862802,80860101,00100000'
   Controls : 23
   Simple ctrls : 12
Channel: release
Date: Mon Oct 17 22:59:49 2011
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
IncompatibleExtensions: NoScript - ID={73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232}, Version=2.1.5, minVersion=1.9a2, maxVersion=1.9.6, Location=app-profile, Type=extension, Active=Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
IpRoute:
 default via 10.0.0.138 dev wlan0 proto static
 10.0.0.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.0.9 metric 2
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
Plugins:
 DivX® Web Player - Lib=libtotem-mully-plugin.so, Location=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
 QuickTime Plug-in 7.6.6 - Lib=libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so, Location=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
 VLC Multimedia Plugin (compatible Totem 3.0.1) - Lib=libtotem-cone-plugin.so, Location=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
 Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible; Totem) - Lib=libtotem-gmp-plugin.so, Location=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
 Adobe Reader 9.4 - Lib=nppdf.so, Location=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=7.0.1/20111008085056
RunningIncompatibleAddons: True
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 04/15/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A11
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA11:bd04/15/2009:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE5500:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E5500
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Martin Wildam (mwildam)]

At least window size is remembered now after another reboot.

[Martin Wildam (mwildam)]

Probably position wasn't remembered even before.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Martin,

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.

We'd like to close this bug report due to its age and long period of inactivity so please let us know if you still see a problem which is related to the one that was reported.

If we do not hear from you this bug report will expire in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Martin Wildam (mwildam)]

Is obsolete. I am on 18.04 in the meantime - also had issues with window size and position here, but could be solved by:

gsettings set org.gnome.mutter edge-tiling false
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.overrides edge-tiling false
gsettings set org.gnome.mutter auto-maximize false

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Thanks for your reply Martin. Will close as "Invalid" as report never confirmed by another user.