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Why does Firefox not store my preferred window height along with the window width and position?

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lightnN5
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When I open Firefox, the window appears where it was last opened and it is the same width as before. The window height, however, is much shorter. I do not use full screen mode; I do prefer the window to be the full height of the 23" monitor so I can see all the data. It has always annoyed me that IE can remember the last window height but Firefox can not.

When I open Firefox, the window appears where it was last opened and it is the same width as before. The window height, however, is much shorter. I do not use full screen mode; I do prefer the window to be the full height of the 23" monitor so I can see all the data. It has always annoyed me that IE can remember the last window height but Firefox can not.

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FredMcD
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You may have a corrupt xulstore.json file. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/changes-toolbars-and-window-sizes-are-not-saved

cor-el
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Try to rename (or delete) the xulstore.json file in the Firefox profile folder.

You can use this button to go to the current Firefox profile folder:

lightnN5
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FredMcD said

You may have a corrupt xulstore.json file. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/changes-toolbars-and-window-sizes-are-not-saved

cor-el said

Try to rename (or delete) the xulstore.json file in the Firefox profile folder. You can use this button to go to the current Firefox profile folder:

Over the last 10 years, I have done a clean install on 4 different computers and have _never_ seen Firefox save the height information. I have tried all the troubleshooting suggestions to no avail. I have tried add-ons but it is quicker to resize the window with the cursor.

My question is: why do you bother saving the position and width info? If saving these parameters is useful to the users, why not save the height info as well? Sorry, that is 2 questions.

cor-el
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Firefox should save the height and width settings in the xulstore.json file and use this on the next start. I see this information: 

"chrome://browser/content/browser.xul": {
"main-window": {
 "screenY": "0",
 "height": "991",
 "sizemode": "normal",
 "width": "1162",
 "screenX": "0"
 }}

A possible cause of this not working could be pop-up type windows or tabs.

You can toggle dom.disable_window_open_feature.* prefs to true on the about:config page to prevent websites from disabling new window features.

See also:

For links opened via JavaScript you can look at this pref:

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.

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lightnN5
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cor-el said

Firefox should save the height and width settings in the xulstore.json file and use this on the next start. I see this information: 
"chrome://browser/content/browser.xul": {
"main-window": {
 "screenY": "0",
 "height": "991",
 "sizemode": "normal",
 "width": "1162",
 "screenX": "0"
 }}

A possible cause of this not working could be pop-up type windows or tabs.

You can toggle dom.disable_window_open_feature.* prefs to true on the about:config page to prevent websites from disabling new window features.

See also:

For links opened via JavaScript you can look at this pref:

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.

Thank you for your suggestions Cor-el. I went through most of them without resolving the problem. Then I noticed that the file xulstore.json was not updating when I closed a window with a height of 1080 and then opened a new one that had a shorter height of 728: 1. I opened a new window from desktop icon – home page is blank, the previous Firefox window had been annoyingly short so the file xulstore.json had the actual size of the window "main-window": { 

 "width":"848",
 "height":"728",
 "screenX":"1429",
 "screenY":"0",
 "sizemode":"normal"}

2. I resized the window using the cursor to drag the bottom edge down and the file immediately updated to read 

 "height":"1082"

3. I closed the window, the file did not update. 4. I opened a new window which was definitely not the same height as the one I closed. The file had not updated since the last resizing and still read 

 "height":"1082"

5. I selected a webpage from the bookmarks - oops, the file updated to show the current size: 

 "height":"728"

Then I realized the "height":"728" was perfect for the primary monitor on my laptop (17" screen) , even though I always use the axillary 23" monitor for the browser.

My conclusions:

  1. 1 Firefox does store the browser size and position correctly.
  2. 2 The function that opens the window incorrectly overrides that information and calculates a new size based on the primary monitor that is not used to display the window.

Other browsers get it right, so Firefox should too!