Comment 19 for bug 805136

The other applications that I've used on the EeePC with a 7" screen seem to avoid this problem. I am not sure if they were redesigned for the small screen or automatically adjust as needed. Open Office, for example, has no issues as to accessibility of menus, etc. Even some Windows programs that work under WINE don't cause their screen to overshoot the bounds of the small monitor - they scroll.

One work around that I mentioned earlier, discovered by accident, is that the dialog window can be moved by using the ALT key and the left mouse button. This allows access to parts of the menu not showing - but it is hard to do as each dialog screen needs to be moved up, then stretched to view new options, sometimes several times to get to the bottom of the choices.

One program that is an add on to Firefox, iMacros, does show the same issue - actually worse. It is a long narrow dialog and control box and the actual controls end up below the screen. This requires resizing Firefox and extending the bottom so the rest of the iMacros menu shows.

Since Thunderbird doesn't cause this nearly as much due to the way its menu is set up, perhaps the Firefox menu could be modified to copy that style - basically splitting the choices into short menus set one after another across the top of the screen? Alternatively, if the menus simply scrolled that would allow the user to to get to the entire list easily.