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[Bug 128932] Re: Google Suggest drop-down list too narrow in Firefox

 

@Amstrad this is not fixed its the same as it has always been.

 However there are workarounds such as customising the toolbar. The
search and url bars can be placed in different rows. I think this is
more of an issue with screen space on a users pc rather than a FireFox
problem. If the suggestion to have a wider drop down list than the
search box is implemented it would just look really unpolished, I don't
think this is a real option. In conclusion as there is a way to get
around this and its only a problem with small screens or low resolution,
and because the only sugested solution is a hacky looking drop down box
I'm questioning whether this is really a bug?

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Title:
  Google Suggest drop-down list too narrow in Firefox

Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser:
  Confirmed
Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  Triaged
Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in “firefox-3.0” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: firefox

  The Google Suggest drop-down list is too narrow by default in Firefox
  2.0 (I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.5+1-0ubuntu1 from 7.04 Feisty).

  See the screenshot attached. I'm using the default theme and fonts at
  the resolution of 1024x768. The mouse pointer doesn't appear in the
  screenshot; it was just pointing to the selected entry.

  
  Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open Firefox.

  2. In the search bar, select the Google search engine icon and type in
  a common word that is not too short.

  3. A drop-down list from Google Suggest appears which contains several
  indistinguishable suggestions, because for each suggestion, only the
  first word is displayed, and the rest is replaced with an ellipsis
  (...) because of the shortage of horizontal space. You can only see
  the full suggestions as tool-tips, which is poor usability for the
  Suggest feature.

  
  Expected behavior:

  Make the drop-down list wider to accommodate its content as necessary.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Jul 28 21:39:38 2007
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
  Package: firefox 2.0.0.5+1-0ubuntu1
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  SourcePackage: firefox
  Uname: Linux chronos 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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