Firefox Linux unable to save position on secondary display and always opens on main display
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(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect, P3)
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(Reporter: cxpher, Unassigned)
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(Blocks 1 open bug)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce: 1. Install Firefox 59 on Linux 2. Move to and maximize Firefox window on secondary display and close browser 3. Reopen and it's maximized on primary display again instead of remembering it's position on the secondary display Actual results: As mentioned in the steps, Firefox 59 on Linux does not remember it's display position unlike other browsers like Chrome and Opera which work fine with the same steps on Linux Expected results: Browser position on secondary display when closed should have been remembered and when reopened, it should have opened again on the same position and maximized size on the secondary display
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Comment 1•6 years ago
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I managed to reproduce the issue on Firefox 59 and Nightly 61.0a1 (2018-03-30), Ubuntu 16.04 and Mac OSX 10.13. I couldn't reproduce on Windows 7 x32. Marking the issue as New and IMO Firefox:Session restore is a good starting place for this bug.
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Comment 2•6 years ago
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I'm pretty sure I've seen this issue before, but I can't find the bug to dupe it to. Let's leave it like this! So right now we don't store the physical display number, so it's simply not supported. We could and should (IMHO), but that'll require some platform coding as well. As you will probably understand, people with multiple monitors are considered power users and in fact a fraction of the population of Firefox users, so this can't be prioritized super high. However, this does seem a small enough feature for a contributor to work on.
Lots of people have dual display setups. Many are working adults and artists. Gamers too these days (streamers). I repeat what i said before. Chrome, Opera etc all work fine with this and the comment that this is just for a small 'fraction' of Firefox users is a joke. Do you have numbers to back that up?
Mike de Boer is right. Prosumer's / Professional users shouldn't be the main focus of Firefox.
It's an urban legend that the professional users installed Firefox on every machine of their family, friends and customers. The huge marketing department of Mozilla created the hype 20 years ago and statistics can proof this fact with massive increase of Firefox users since Quantum Release. There's a ~50% decrease of usage every 3 years.
Most 'casual' users get a spontaneous brainwave and change their good working Browser from Chrome / Edge to Firefox. Thats how Firefox is collecting new users today and maybe some paid advertisements on Newspaper...
(If you should find sarcasm take it with you...)
Long time ago I installed Firefox on more than 500 machines (as private teenager!) for casual users. I stopped installing FF for others because of the huge lack of performance compared to Chrome. I was waiting for the performance bump to install and recommend it again on other machines. After WebExtensions release I decided to never install a Mozilla product again (except my own machine) or recommend it another person . As long as I won't see a Mozilla apologize statement to their community and feature parity to pre WebExtensions. But I think Mozilla will sink into insignificance before that happens.
Why I'm waiting for an apologize? After WE release i had hundred's of hours work to get my own workflow back. I had to realize that Mozilla give a f*** about their community as long as Google is paying. We made them great and now I have to read such statements like "people with multiple monitors are considered power users and in fact a fraction of the population of Firefox users, so this can't be prioritized super high."
Why? I like the great idea behind WebExtensions but I'm not even able to change a single keybinding anymore LOL. A missclick can destroy several hours of work with Firefox LOL (CTRL+Q instead of CTRL+A). Do you know any reason why i should recommend or install such a software for others if i have such troubles?
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Updated•2 years ago
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Comment 5•2 years ago
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The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S3. However, the bug has 12 votes.
:dao, could you consider increasing the bug severity?
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Comment 6•2 years ago
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The last needinfo from me was triggered in error by recent activity on the bug. I'm clearing the needinfo since this is a very old bug and I don't know if it's still relevant.
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