Bug 470468

Summary: firefox and some other gnome program open/save dialogs resize on any activity - VERY ANNOYING
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 Reporter: Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse>
Component: FirefoxAssignee: E-mail List <bnc-team-mozilla>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Final   
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Hardware: x86-64   
OS: openSUSE 11.1   
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Description Jon Nelson 2009-01-29 02:34:23 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121300 SUSE/3.0.5-1.1 Firefox/3.0.5

Basically, in both firefox and eog (much worse in firefox), if you need to use a file dialog (such as for attaching stuff to emails, opening a file, etc...), the dialog is very badly sized (minimal) at the outset and *every* selection resizes the dialog back. It's extremely annoying.

A google search reveals an Ubuntu user also encountered the problem:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/319267/+viewstatus

and I reproduce part of their pretty good text below:




The issue occurs when you open the 'file open' dialog and resize it (for example to make it larger, because you are browsing a large directory). It resizes automatically when:

 * bookmarks (left side) are clicked
 * any files/folders are clicked (right side)
 * breadcrumbs are clicked (top)

applications which seem affected: eye of gnome, firefox
applications which don't seem affected: openoffice, gimp




Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Hubert Figuiere 2009-01-29 04:03:54 UTC 
this is bug 445923.
Thanks for taking the time to report it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 445923 ***