[tor-talk] TBB 6.5 screen resize not working

Joe Btfsplk joebtfsplk at gmx.com
Fri Jan 27 20:34:38 UTC 2017


OK, thanks - I will.  Others can see if they also notice the following.
When TBB 6.5 (Win) opens, it doesn't align its top border w/ top of 
monitor / display (if it's supposed to).
It aligned to top of monitor in v6.08, allowed more room for resized 
screen height.

On 1/27/2017 2:12 AM, Georg Koppen wrote:
> Joe Btfsplk:
>> With default settings, TBB 6.5 (Win) doesn't round screen sizes at all.
>> Browserspy.dk shows 993 x 695.  I see the pref
>> "extensions.torbutton.resize_windows" is still set false by default.
>> Toggling it to true gives different reported screen size, but not
>> increments of 100 or 200.
>>
>> The pref "extensions.torbutton.resize_new_windows" = true (default), but
>> I don't find toggling both these prefs in any combo correctly rounds
>> screen size.
>>
>> In TBB 6.08, when I tested setting "extensions.torbutton.resize_windows"
>> = true, it consistently rounded screens to 1000 x 800 on this monitor.
>> With that pref at default False in v6.08, reported screen height was odd
>> size - like 72x (x not 0).  But the width was *still 1000.*
>>
>> In v6.5, neither width or height is rounded correctly, regardless of the
>> pref value.  What happened?  I thought 6.5 was supposed to fix screen
>> size rounding?
> We fixed a bunch of issues with screen size rounding by moving our
> Torbutton hack into a direct Firefox patch. If you look at our bug
> tracker
> (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=merge_ready&status=needs_information&status=needs_review&status=needs_revision&status=new&status=reopened&keywords=~tbb-fingerprinting-resolution&order=priority)
> you'll see that there are still issues open regarding our resizing
> efforts, though. E.g. #14098 where you commented recently. If you think
> your issue is not covered yet, please file a new bug with steps how to
> reproduce it.
>
> Georg
>
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