Bug 443279

Created attachment 303038 [details]
example of dialogs that are overflowing

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David, can you reproduce this with firefox-3.0.1-1.fc9? I just cannot. Also,
from the brief look at your screenshot, it looks very much like there is
something very wrong with your fonts or other screen-related artefacts (maybe,
something caused by vmware?). Are you sure that all other Gnome applications
(e.g., gedit) work without any problems? The last but not least, could we get
value of the firefox option (use about:config to get it) layout.css.dpi, please?

Thank you very much.

Created attachment 312734 [details]
screencap of too narrow dialog1

(In reply to comment #3)
> David, can you reproduce this with firefox-3.0.1-1.fc9?
firefox-3.0.1-1.fc9.i386
Yes, see attached.

> I just cannot. Also,
> from the brief look at your screenshot, it looks very much like there is
> something very wrong with your fonts or other screen-related artefacts
(maybe,
> something caused by vmware?). 
vmware is installed on this and the other machine where I first saw this.

> Are you sure that all other Gnome applications
> (e.g., gedit) work without any problems?
Yes.

> The last but not least, could we get value of the firefox option (use
about:config to get it) layout.css.dpi, please?
layout.css.dpi=-1

Created attachment 312735 [details]
desktop font settings

The default font sizes that come with fedora are quite wasteful of space on a
1024x768 display, I make them smaller. I don't know if firefox takes these
values into account when generating the prefs dialog ?

Also, since I made the fonts smaller, shouldn't that make the font text fit the
dialogs more easily ?

forgot to clear the needinfo bit.

Taking the bug...

Reporter, can you please check latest official 3.1 beta 2 mozilla binaries? From http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Created attachment 326722 [details]
network dialog overflowing

I don't think I can see a difference between the version originally referenced in this bug and with mozilla site 3.1b2 {extracted and run from zip}.

Created attachment 326723 [details]
encryption tab too wide

The only other Prefs dialog page that overflows the dialog box width.

Created attachment 326724 [details]
umm: the dialog windows are wider, and some stuff fits better

I noticed that the connections dialog is 15-20 px wider, and the entry boxes are now centred OK.

The Network dialog that calls the above dialog, is also wider, but it's content including fonts size seems to be almost scaled perfectly so that the same things are missed.

Note the image has the newest dialogs overlaid on the original capture, otherwise I wouldn't have noticed that they got wider.

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Created attachment 350536 [details]
check now button doesn't fit inside dialog

Note: I do not see this problem on a notebook running F10, updated with a 1400x1050 display.

I still see it with F11 on a brand new motherboard and graphic card. F11 was installed fresh, but user account was kept from F10 (and earlier installs). firefox-3.5-1.fc11.i586 

The same right edge of buttons on the right hand side of a tab not being visible also occurs on the Network and encryption tabs.

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(In reply to comment #13)
> Created attachment 350536 [details]
> I still see it with F11 on a brand new motherboard and graphic card. F11 was
> installed fresh, but user account was kept from F10 (and earlier installs).
> firefox-3.5-1.fc11.i586 
> 
> The same right edge of buttons on the right hand side of a tab not being
> visible also occurs on the Network and encryption tabs.

This issue is still occurring in:
firefox-3.5.11-1.fc12.x86_64
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100723 Fedora/3.5.11-1.fc12 Firefox/3.5.11

Edit|Preferences|Advanced|Network|Settings dialog is wide enough to fit the content (field). OK.

Edit|Preferences|Advanced|Network dialog is not wide enough to fit the content (buttons for Settings, Clear Now, Exceptions, Remove). Issue is still apparent.

(In reply to comment #16)
> This issue is still occurring in:
> firefox-3.5.11-1.fc12.x86_64
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100723
> Fedora/3.5.11-1.fc12 Firefox/3.5.11
> 
> Edit|Preferences|Advanced|Network|Settings dialog is wide enough to fit the
> content (field). OK.
> 
> Edit|Preferences|Advanced|Network dialog is not wide enough to fit the content
> (buttons for Settings, Clear Now, Exceptions, Remove). Issue is still apparent.

Please reply to the question in comment 3 and give us a screenshot of the issue, please? Also, do you have some different fonts or something?

Thank you for all the help

Created attachment 448155 [details]
screenshot showing how the preferences box is drawn too narrow

(In reply to comment #3) re comment 17.
> David, can you reproduce this with firefox-3.0.1-1.fc9?
Well, for current F12 firefox:
firefox-3.5.12-1.fc12.x86_64
, it is still occurring.

> from the brief look at your screenshot, it looks very much like there is
> something very wrong with your fonts or other screen-related artefacts
Seems normal to me.
 
> (maybe, something caused by vmware?).
This is a real machine. The user profile has been re-used from F10,F11.

> Are you sure that all other Gnome applications
> (e.g., gedit) work without any problems?
No trouble that I can see.

> The last but not least, could we get value of the firefox option
> (use about:config to get it) layout.css.dpi, please?
layout.css.dpi = -1  (which appears to be the default).
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I tried a fresh user account, and found that the dialogue spacing/width is OK. Based on your hints I tried adjusting firefox font (Edit|Preferences|Content|Fonts & Colors), with no change.

I also tried various System|Preferences|Appearance|Fonts settings changes, with the firefox dialog open. The key one is changing the Application Font.
By default it is: sans 10.

With my normal desktop (with dialog width problem): Sans 8.

The interesting thing with the test user is that adjusting (down) that setting while the firefox|edit|preferences|advanced|network dialogue is open, shows that the text in the dialogue is redrawn with the narrower font. This make the dialog have a bit too much spacing on the right edge, but all parts are fully displayed.

It is only once firefox is restarted that the issue is seen; even though the text is narrower (takes less width), the dialogue seems to have narrowed excessively, and now the right edge of buttons is covered by the border.

If the font is increased from 8 to say 9 or 10, then the live dialog font and button widths change, but the width of the dialog does not, so that right hand edge of many items becomes invisible. Once firefox is restarted, the issue clears itself.
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It seems to be 2x issues:
1. when gnome appearance changes are made, font/button width changes are made immediately in the firefox dialogue (if it is open). However, the dialog doesn't take into account that a different font size might need a different dialogue size.

2. when calculating the required dialogue size, it appears that firefox checks width (somehow) for all the other top-level tabs, since they correctly fit after a restart. It seems to not note the required width for the Advanced tab, possibly because it doesn't look at the content within the tabs that are shown on the advanced tab.

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My machine was upgraded from f12 to f13. Versions are now:
firefox-3.6.12-1.fc13.x86_64
xulrunner-1.9.2.12-1.fc13.x86_64

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Fedora/3.6.12-1.fc13 Firefox/3.6.12

Repeating the same appearance|application font changes that triggered this problem, no longer causes the dialog content to be too wide for dialog.

Closing as rawhide (ie later fedora release resolves this).