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** Changed in: metacity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Invalid

** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Invalid

** Changed in: firefox
   Importance: Medium => Undecided

** Changed in: firefox
       Status: Confirmed => New

** Changed in: firefox
 Remote watch: Mozilla Bugzilla #460614 => None

** Changed in: firefox
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: iceweasel (Debian)
   Importance: Unknown => Undecided

** Changed in: iceweasel (Debian)
       Status: Confirmed => New

** Changed in: iceweasel (Debian)
 Remote watch: Debian Bug tracker #502647 => None

** Changed in: iceweasel (Debian)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Firefox misbehaves with the metacity's move_to_* features

Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser:
  Invalid
Status in firefox-3.0 package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in metacity package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in iceweasel package in Debian:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: firefox

  The bug appears on Ubuntu 8.04.1, with the following two default packages:
  - firefox version 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3 and
  - metacity 1:2.22.0-0ubuntu4 (Gnome's window manager).

  One "hidden" feature of metacity is you can bind to a keyboard
  shortcut a move_to_w function which move the focused window to the
  West side of the screen. This feature do what is expected, with the
  exception of firefox windows.

  To reproduce the bug, please follow these steps:

  1. Start a Gnome session; metacity is used as the default window
  manager.

  2. Bind the move-to-west feature to the Control+Alt+O key with:
  gconftool-2 --type=string --set /apps/metacity/window_keybindings/move_to_side_w '<Control><Alt>O'

  3. Launch any window, e.g. a Gnome-terminal, focus the window and type
  Control+Alt+O to check that the window will move to the west side of
  the screen.

  4. Launch firefox, focus its window. Type Control+Alt+O. The window
  first goes to the west side as expected, but it immediately goes back
  to its initial position (which is unexpected).

  
  This must be a bug from firefox and not metacity. To check it, follow these steps:

  5. In order to suspend the firefox process, run:
  killall -STOP firefox
  The content of the firefox window is no more refreshed, as expected.

  6. Focus the firefox window and  type Control+Alt+O. The window goes
  to the west side as expected.

  7. Now, let's wake the firefox process up:
  killall -CONT firefox
  Now, the firefox window goes back to its initial position by itself.

  
  As I didn't try to trigger the bug on vanilla gnome and firefox programs, I am reporting the bug to this ubuntu launchpad. The bug is eventually to be reported upstream.

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