[tor-bugs] #16982 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Resizing Tor Browser only issues warning if maximized fully

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#16982: Resizing Tor Browser only issues warning if maximized fully
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 Reporter:  cypherpunks                    |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  defect                         |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                         |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser       |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                         |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-fingerprinting-resolution  |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by ArenaL5):

 Tor Browsers only issues a warning you if the window is maximized while
 it's running. If the window manager overrides the window size before
 running, there is no warning either.

 This has happened. Awesome is a tiling window manager. In some settings,
 windows fill the whole screen without being tehcnically "maximized", and
 [https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/pull/2505 they're programming an
 exception for Tor Browser] so it will retain its default window size.

 The same happens if you use a window manager add-on to resize windows to
 preset sizes, like gTile for Ubuntu. Even if you resize the window to fill
 the whole screen, it counts as "manually resized" and, thus, "not
 maximized".

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