Palemoon window resize limit

[milkman6453]

Hello, Im an old user returning to Palemoon. When I used the program a few months ago i remember being able to re-size the window to just a small strip, pretty much just the top bar would be visible.

I use a program called winroll for this.

With the latest version of palemoon i noticed it can only be rolled up to about a half inch from the bottom of the bookmarks toolbar.

Is there a setting i can change for the window to be able to further rolled up?

[mikeysc]

I know you won't like this answer, but that's what the minimize button is for.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

I know what he is talking about.. MozCo changed that so that the main navi toolbar cannot be hidden anymore via window sizing. I am not entirely sure when this was implemented but IMO it was the right call..

[Moonchild]

Tobin, if you can find which bug this was changed in (I've had no luck), I can see if it's possible to make an override for people who want to use roll-up tools.

[Moonchild]

Because the Navigation bar is a special case, resizing is restricted to more than just the title bar. but you can reduce the height to its absolute minimum (title bar + nav bar) by putting the following in userChrome.css:

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#main-window {
  min-height: 30px !important;
}

Reducing further is not possible, but it should save you more space.

EDIT: The window size restriction is there for a very good (security) reason, and as long as your roll-up tool tries to use a simple (automated) resize of the window to reduce its height, it will resize down to what is the allowed lower limit and no further as a result of this restriction.

If your tool would do it a different way, not trying to resize but actually changing the window at a lower level in the operating system, then it would likely work better. There are, unfortunately, very few programs that do it this way because it is a lot more complicated and requires in-depth knowledge of the Microsoft UX library. According to my chat with Tobin, Windowblinds can do it the way you prefer, but e.g. Actual Window Manager can't.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

This change was first introduced in Gecko/17 (Released as Firefox 17 in November 2012). I have found the common code that allows it to happen but finding a seemingly orphaned bug that actually implemented it in the browser specific code is like finding a needle in a haystack.. For all I know the code was always present but the bug I found actually made it work as intended.

Sorry but that just seems to be how it is.. Besides the minimum height is there for a reason.

As a result of this intensive searching without yielding any results coupled with quite likely intended behavior, I am going to, in typical Mozilla style, consider this:

RESOLVED WONTFIX

But not for lack of trying

[milkman6453]

The experimental version of Aurora does allow this, perhaps they forgot of the security implications.
Thanks for looking into it!!