People aren't going to let me close bug 32148 until I make the bookmarks and history windows comply. Attached is a patch for that. It adds persistence of sizemode to bm-find.xul and history.xul, removes their (not-working) dependence on persisting |x| and |y| attributes (should be screenX/Y, and it's all automated, so they need do nothing special), and removes the |centerscreen| attribute from all the window.open calls (that I could find) that refence them. That last bit is necessary because |centerscreen| overrides the restoration of position memory.

looks innocent, enough, r=pchen

sr=mscott do we need any more changes like this in mail too?

Checked in. No one is bugging me about adding zoom state persistence for any other window. But here's a current list of windows that take the trouble to persist position but not zoom state. Many of them are things like dialogs for which it doesn't make sense to persist zoom state. But the list is worth looking at: ./editor/ui/composer/content/TextEditorAppShell.xul ./editor/ui/dialogs/content/EdImageMap.xul ./editor/ui/dialogs/content/EdInsertTable.xul ./extensions/wallet/editor/WalletViewer.xul ./mailnews/base/prefs/resources/content/AccountManager.xul ./mailnews/base/resources/content/mail3PaneWindowVertLayout.xul ./mailnews/base/resources/content/subscribe.xul ./mailnews/base/search/resources/content/FilterEditor.xul ./mailnews/base/search/resources/content/SearchDialog.xul ./xpfe/browser/resources/content/openLocation.xul ./xpfe/components/console/resources/content/console.xul ./xpfe/components/filepicker/res/content/filepicker.xul ./xpfe/components/find/resources/finddialog.xul ./xpfe/components/prefwindow/resources/content/pref.xul ./xpfe/components/sidebar/resources/customize.xul ./xpfe/components/ucth/resources/helperAppLauncher.xul ./xpfe/global/resources/content/unix/printdialog.xul ain't gonna stop me from closing this bug, though.

cc'ing claudius so he can check bookmarks/history [if i don't get to it before he does]. cc'ing nbaca wrt mscott's question above.

checked the bookmarks and history windows using 2001.02.09.08 comm bits. what's rather bizarre here is that size and position are remembered on winNT and Mac, but only size is remembered on linux. no sure if this is expected behavior in linux, however [wm foo?]. if it is, or should be a seperate bug, do re-resolve this bug. thx.

*** Bug 55692 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Oh that. Yes, that's a known issue for Linux. It's expected behaviour, and there's no bug that I know of. Certainly no open one. Linux windows are placed initially by the window manager, and we explicitly don't attempt to override it. Re-resolving fixed.

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