Default window size of Firefox?

olof · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 2:04 pm Post subject: Default window size of Firefox?

Whenever I start Firefox the window is slightly wider than the desktop, and having to manually resize it every time is driving me mad. This happens both in Metacity and Enlightenment DR17. I've been trying to find where it stores its default window size, but I can't find anything. For a while I had the same problem with other GTK2 applications, such as Evolution and Gaim, but now its only Firefox that defaults to a fixed window size, no matter what size it had last time it was opened.

Does anyone know a solution?

peter96362930 · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 2:47 pm Post subject:

On my system if I resize firefox and then shut it down (File/Quit) normally and then re-open it, it re-opens at the same size with which it was closed.

olof · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:37 pm Post subject:

Yes, that's the way I'd like it to work. For me it is always slightly wider than the screen when it starts up, no matter what size it was when it was last closed.

I guess some setting has been screwed up, but I can't find where it stores what window size it should load up with. I've been looking in ~/.gtkrc-2.0, ~/.gnome2/ and ~/.mozilla/, but I can't find anything that seems to be related.

planetsheinker · Guru Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 403 Location: Israel

olof · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 5:50 pm Post subject:

I tried upgrading to mozilla-firefox 1.0-r3. It didn't help.

However, about a week ago it changed to a slightly smaller size, and now always starts with that size instead. I can't think of anything I did that should effect it, but at least it's not as annoying as before, since it doesn't start up wider than the screen. But it would be nice if it would start up with the same size it had last time it was open.

jamiethehutt · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 66 Location: Scotland!

I have this problem, the only solution I've found is to remove ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/localstore.rdf when Firefox isn't running.

Unfortunately this removes some other visual settings as well, but wont break anything that takes more than 2 minutes to sort.
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John5788 · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 7:27 pm Post subject:

*shrug* maybe try rm -rf ~/.mozilla ?
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olof · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 7:47 pm Post subject:

Deleting ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/localstore.rdf did the trick. Thanks.