A Firefox Annoyance – Restoring from Minimized
This is something really small, but for me it’s a blemish on an otherwise almost perfect browser (after installing all my extensions). For whatever reason, when I minimize a maximized Firefox window to my taskbar, then later click a link in another application that needs to open a browser window which causes Firefox to restore, it restores to its “windowed” size, rather than restoring to its last state which was maximized. This little quirk just drives me crazy, and I can’t seem to find any reference to it, or any fix for it. At this point, I’m starting to wonder if it’s a behaviour brought on by one of my many extensions, or if it is default Firefox behaviour, as I suspect.
Has anyone run into this? Were you able to fix it?
September 2nd, 2005 at
Haven’t noticed that quirk, but a similar one. The other day I was using the Firefox print preview function. I noticed 2 things: 1. when I changed the number of total pages, or the pages to print, what I saw on the screen was not what printed. I believe IE has bugs in this are too. 2. if I left firefox in print preview and then clicked a link from another application, it would display the new page with the print preview title bar and toolbar even though it wasn’t a print preview!!! I would expect it to cancel the print preview mode, or pop up a dialog with an OK/cancel option.
Still sticking with Firefox though…. Actually I made all the IE shortcut icons point to Firefox on my machine to convert all those change-resistant novice users in my household.
September 2nd, 2005 at
Yah, you almost need a way to hide IE before some people start using Firefox. I thought about deleting the IE shortcut and setting the FF icon to be the same as IE… haha