Bug#562957: iceweasel: Iceweasel's tab restoration incorrectly handles browser window size changes

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 07:13:01PM +0000, Francis Russell wrote:
> Mike Hommey wrote:
> 
> > awesome.
> 
> Oops, I managed to read that as an enthusiastic appreciation for tiling
> window managers instead of a name the first time round.
> 
> After I managed to get awesome to stop treating Iceweasel as a floating
> window I tried to replicate this problem. It seems that it doesn't occur
> under awesome.
> 
> > Have you tried to get other applications to resize themselves, to see if
> > the WM handles them better ? (I don't know if there are other applications
> > that do resize themselves, though)
> 
> I'm not aware of any other programs that alter their window size in this
> way either.

Mmmmmm maybe qemu or some virtualization tool, when the guest resizes
its display ? Though I'm not sure they'd do it the same way iceweasel
does it.

> You mentioned something about a window class. Is there some way to test
> with my current iceweasel but with the different window class? I guess
> this may involve compiling the iceweasel package?

I think changing the name in /usr/lib/iceweasel/application.ini should
be enough (check with xprop).

Mike