User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030328 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030328 Some sections in the preferences dialog are cut off and there is no way to see them. I have experienced this bug in every version of Mozilla I have used (but could not find a previously filed bug for it) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open the preferences dialog. 2. Go to Mail And Newsgroups -> Message Display. Actual Results: The options are cut off. Expected Results: Mozilla should display a scrollbar to scroll the options.

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030328

bug 80415 - or possibly some part of bug 133627 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80415 ***

ok, that bug just got marked WFM :( reopening this one. Kevin - what sizes/types of fonts are you using on your system? the font in the screenshot doesn't look like the default.

reassign...

Using windows xp default font size (small fonts, i believe it's 72dpi). I don't have any idea what font Moz is using, I think it's Tahoma - I haven't touched the font settings. I've experienced this on multiple computers and OSes in my possession, by the way. It's never really gotten in the way of using mozilla, but it's still there. And no offense but I'm not sure the category you have placed this in is correct, I'm pretty sure other preferences panels do this as well, I just noticed it again in mail and news, I'll check.

this certainly isn't the only one - see bug 133627 for a big collection of other bugs on prefs panels which don't fit. i'm not sure about the component either, but it matches the one on the bug that was similar to this one.

Is there a reason why the prefs panel is not resizable?

Brian - that's by design. Dialog boxes (at least on Windows) are not usually resizable, and users won't expect to have to resize them. It would be more of a workaround than a fix for these bugs.

Michael, Resizing the preference panels can't be "working by design". As an end user, I have never stumbled across another application that clips the right hand side of a form and disallows the user to stretch the box to display the whole thing.

Sure. All I meant was that most other applications don't let you resize dialogs, and the fact that Mozilla does not is by design. Items should of course not be clipped though, which is the bug.

What I've always found odd is that you can resize the Mail and Newsgroups account settings dialog but not the whole application suite preferences dialog. Doesn't that suggest that there are two lines of thinking from developers? I think if you tried to get a "mail/news settings dialog box is resizable, it shouldn't be" bug accepted, you'd be met with much more resistance. This not being able to resize the preferences dialog thing has been bothering me (and many non-bug-filing end users I know) for many releases now -- could somebody *please* just make an option somewhere (even if only in about:config) to have the dialog be resizable? It works totally fine the way Mail/News does it ..... Or do we need an unsupported patch a la Home Button? I understand that it would be a workaround Michael, but don't you think a "temporary" workaround is reasonable when this issue has existed on Win32 since before 1.0?

just for reference: a fix for bug 79948 was what caused the preferences dialog to not be resizable i see (from google) that there has been a bunch of debate on this topic, but maybe it's time to re-evalute. i agree of course that it's good to have developers to make their dialogs nice and neat, but what do you care about more? meeting some arbitrary "win32 dialogs should not be resizable" standard (which i think no longer exists for XP! -- not sure though), or making end users happy? at the end of the day, you still have people that for one reason or another put out preference pages that don't fit. this sort of thing in a mature browser like this just undermines (not sure if that's the right word) the efforts of everyone involved, even if it's normally the extension's fault (although i notice on my new 1.5 build that even the ChatZilla and Themes pages don't even fit, and those are shipped with the browser). anyway, i don't care too too much, i just get the feeling sometimes that there's extra options i'm missing out on (and i'm unlikely to go and change random things in about:config).

*** Bug 274573 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 218342 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This has bugged me for some time now as well. the Tools/Options... dialog box was at one time re-sizable. Then, one release... *bang*! cut-off options dialogs. see http://zen-ink.org/Advanced-Network.PNG how am I supposed to fiddle with the connection settings? I don't want to hear any junk about fonts and sizes. There should be some way to accommodate all fonts and sizes. Ok, at least MOST of them. It's not like I use a huge font.

I'd like to confirm this bug too - using WinXP with a relatively small Trebuchet MS as main font. I've had this problem in all versions of Firefox and Thunderbird since way before 1.0, and now in 2.0RC1 it's still there, and now actually not just clipping an option, but hiding an entire checkbox. (No screenshot right now, I'll make one if required). I still don't understand why the options dialog isn't simply made resizable. This has been sitting here for over three years now. From a UI perspective I would expect any window to be resizable; that some/many dialogs in Win32 aren't is something that has always bugged me. And since whatever logic is calculating the dialog size is clearly not working correctly, this would be the obvious fix. Or fixing that logic.

PS: I'm not sure what the customs are here, so I'm not touching the severity - but I think a bug that potentially renders the browser options unusable should not be set to "trivial" but at least to "major", if not "critical".

Adding some triviality with a screenshot

I have the same issues on Firefox 2.0+ using Trebuchet MS on Windows XP (see attached).

The end of the options dialog is cutted off in Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 under WinXP SP2, but only when using a custom "Classic Windows" theme. The same in Firefox. With Windows XP theme, or with the standard "Classic Windows" theme, the dialogs are ok. Custom theme details: Fonts (all): Microsoft Sans Serif, size: 7. Scroll-bar: 13. Menu, Selected elements, Title bars sizes: 18. Windows borders sizes: 1. Palette Title: 14. Couldn't figure out which specific setting causes the cutoff.

WORKSFORME Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100526 Lightning/1.1a1pre SeaMonkey/2.1a2pre Probably fixed during the rewrite of the SeaMonkey 2.0 Preferences Window. If you still have problems with the Firefox or Thunderbird Options windows please file new bugs in the appropriate products.