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Status: Unknown => In Progress
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Title:
Window position is not remembered between starts
Status in Mozilla Firefox:
In Progress
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
Firefox forgets the location of the main window each time I close it
down and start it back up. I have investigated this, and it turns out
that Firefox rewrites parts of the localstore.rdf file in my profile,
and thus changes the screenX="499" setting to screenX="0" as can be
seen in the below diff.
Steps to reproduct:
1) Start firefox and move the main window until it touches the right edge of
the screen.
2) Shut down firefox.
3) Start Firefox again
Result: Firefox is positioned on the very left side of the screen.
Expected result: Firefox should be started in the position I left it.
Below is a diff that shows what changes are done by Firefox to my
localstore.rdf file between step 2 and 3:
--- localstore.rdf_correct 2008-03-21 03:45:28.000000000 +0100
+++ localstore.rdf_wrong 2008-03-21 03:48:25.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,21 +1,17 @@
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<RDF:RDF xmlns:NC="http://home.netscape.com/NC-rdf#";
xmlns:RDF="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";>
+ <RDF:Description RDF:about="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul">
+ <NC:persist
RDF:resource="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#main-window"/>
+ <NC:persist
RDF:resource="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#sidebar-box"/>
+ <NC:persist
RDF:resource="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#sidebar-title"/>
+ </RDF:Description>
<RDF:Description
RDF:about="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#main-window"
screenY="25"
sizemode="normal"
width="1093"
height="1122"
- screenX="499" />
+ screenX="0" />
<RDF:Description
RDF:about="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#sidebar-title"
value="" />
- <RDF:Description
RDF:about="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#sidebar-box"
- sidebarcommand=""
- width=""
- src="" />
- <RDF:Description RDF:about="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul">
- <NC:persist
RDF:resource="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#main-window"/>
- <NC:persist
RDF:resource="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#sidebar-box"/>
- <NC:persist
RDF:resource="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#sidebar-title"/>
- </RDF:Description>
</RDF:RDF>
This problem has been observed in all Ubuntu releases that I can
remember. Info about my Ubuntu installation and Firefox installation:
Description: Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
Release: 8.04
firefox:
Installed: 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 21 03:46:38 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-12-generic i686
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