Firefox default window size....

hbar · 02-06-2009, 03:09 PM

Whenever I open Firefox, the window size is 640x480, reagrdless of what size it was when it was last closed. My localstore.rdf does seem to save the last window size after FF is closed:

Code:

<?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#main-window"
                   sizemode="normal"
                   screenX="0"
                   screenY="96"
                   width="1055"
                   height="873" />
  <RDF:Description RDF:about="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#sidebar-title"
                   value="" />
  <RDF:Description RDF:about="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#PersonalToolbar"
                   collapsed="true" />
  <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"/>
    <NC:persist RDF:resource="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#PersonalToolbar"/>
  </RDF:Description>
</RDF:RDF>

.....but opening it again always gives me a 640x480 sized window.

....Any idea????

Edit: it's also making me sign in to LQ again each time I close/open. Previously I could stay logged in after reopening the browser.

Mega Man X · 02-07-2009, 08:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hbar

Whenever I open Firefox, the window size is 640x480, reagrdless of what size it was when it was last closed. My localstore.rdf does seem to save the last window size after FF is closed:

Code:

<?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#main-window"
                   sizemode="normal"
                   screenX="0"
                   screenY="96"
                   width="1055"
                   height="873" />
  <RDF:Description RDF:about="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#sidebar-title"
                   value="" />
  <RDF:Description RDF:about="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#PersonalToolbar"
                   collapsed="true" />
  <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"/>
    <NC:persist RDF:resource="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#PersonalToolbar"/>
  </RDF:Description>
</RDF:RDF>

.....but opening it again always gives me a 640x480 sized window.

....Any idea????

Edit: it's also making me sign in to LQ again each time I close/open. Previously I could stay logged in after reopening the browser.

Maybe some addon you installed is messing things up. Either that or your profile became corrupted for some reason. Try this in a terminal:

cd ~
mv .mozilla .mozilla_bak

Restart Firefox and see if there is any difference. If this fix the problem, then we can solve the problem by elimination: find if the problem is the profile, if not, which addon may be causing this behavior.

Regards!

hbar · 02-07-2009, 10:52 AM

I've tried that.....even using a new profile, this still happens. FF opens in fullscreen the first time it is opened, then I resize it and it always opens in 640x480 from then on.

I've checked that localstore.rdf does actually save the dimensions when I close FF, but they are always overwritten when it is relaunched. Maybe this is a bug in the Debian iceweasel package (don't remember if it was recently upgraded), but I haven't heard of the problem from anyone else....

hbar · 02-07-2009, 11:27 AM

Okay, this is weird.

I had recently installed on an AMD machine with an integrated ATI chipset, and was using the open-source "radeon" driver for it by default. This was giving me trouble (crashing X after the screensaver was left on for a while), so I switched to the fglrx driver. Now the firefox issue seems to have solved itself (magic?!?), and time will tell whether it has solved the X issue...