When clicking links that open a new window, the title bar is truncated.
When I am on a website and I click a link that opens up a new window (not tab), firefox seems to truncate the title bar up (where the tabs are located).
I have made a screen capture to explain this better:
http://tinypic.com/r/242zew0/7 http://oi51.tinypic.com/242zew0.jpg
This happens on every computer at work as well as my home computer. It is obviously a general bug that has been over looked some how.
The only way to fix it is to resize or restore the entire window then maximize it again.
This occurs every time. Firefox is loaded and running as a maximized window as well.
I've run it in both normal and safe-modes... and this problem always exists.
Modified by lemko
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This happens if you choose the option "Always Show the Tab bar" because only as much of the title as will fit on a tab is displayed.
You can turn off that setting here:
orange Firefox button or Tools menu > Options > Tabs
It's probably also possible to change the maximum tab width so when you have only one tab it's much wider, but I don't know the trick for that.
if i do this though.. i lose the functionality of my tab up top as well as the 'open new window' button.
...and i still don't see why tab widths would push the screen up. if u look at my picture again... it isn't just that the tab's are being truncated... the whole screen (as in everything underneath the orange firefox button) is being shifted up. i did not crop either picture from the top.
u can clearly see that the navigation bar as well as the buttons has been shifted up. basically the screen shifts up and removes the gap underneath the orange firefox button.
edit: i also just tried something else. if i click any link while holding the 'shift' key to open a new window... the window opens just fine. this only seems to happen when a website tells firefox to open a new window.
Modified by lemko
If I have the window maximized, then the tab bar pushes up in to the top space. Otherwise, it stays below. In either case, the tab has a maximum width and longer titles are cut off.
I still use the classic menu bar and haven't fully explored all interactions with the orange Firefox button, so maybe I'm missing something. Hopefully someone will provide a solution.