Ugh. This is something that we'll probably all need to get together to figure out. Any of the dreaded popups (e.g., at netscape's home page or at geocities) is "remembered" as your preferred browser size. To reproduce: 1. Find a website that reliably brings up pop-up ads; e.g., http://home.netscape.com/ or http://www.geocities.com/. 2. Close the popup. 3. Open a new window. Note that its size will be the same as the popup's size. Expected behavior: new window is same size as last browser window you opened via "new browser window".

This isn't bad. In the WinFE of 4.x, we just remembered whether or not a window was opened using window.open, and made sure not to write out flags. We could annotate the content model (e.g., the window tag) with this info, and then the unload check would know to look for that and not persist the attributes. We do need to make sure that only the window.open that does NOT open chrome does this, e.g., the normal browser window.open.

Actually we may be using window.open too much to do this. Another idea is to rely on the opener property. If the opener is chrome, we persist, and if the opener is content, we don't. This annotation would be made up front at the time you opened the window.

I tried the window.opener check but ran into problems (window.opener was null; that seems to have cleared up but perhaps only to our disabling of some security stuff). I think it might be sufficient to set a property on the browser window itself. Our chrome can do that after it opens a browser window. This seems to work except that I ran into problems when I tested it with the File->Open Web Location option (i.e., browser windows opened via that route). See bug #13525. I may go ahead and do this anyway, depending on what other obstacles I run into. It requires changing the code that opens windows to use window.open(Dialog).

*** Bug 15014 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Voted PDT-

Not high enough priority for my M11 attention. Moving to M12.

This is currently blocked by general persist= flakiness. The net result of that is that the size of those tiny ad popups isn't remembered anyway. Moving to M13.

Updating QA contact.

*** Bug 21460 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Not required for beta 1.

BULK MOVE: Changing component from XUL to XP Toolkit/Widgets: XUL. XUL component will be deleted.

*** Bug 24062 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 24062 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Based on discussion in bug 24062, it seems that it will be impossible to test this properly on Linux so long as bug 17799, "[PP] Window size not remembered on Linux", NEW, M14, is not fixed. Currently the window size is not being remembered at all on Linux (at least on M14 builds), so testing to see if it being remembered when it shouldn't is not possible. Setting dependency.

Now how did I get that wrong? the dependency is on bug 17799, fixing. Sorry 'bout the spam... break time.

I'm going to have to start checking law's bug list from now on -- funny how we often seem to end up working on the same bugs. Anyway, this bug is a dupe of 15555. This one's older, but that one's fixed. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 15555 ***

cleaning up: VERIFY duplicate