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The only issue I have with Firefox(and a regular one) is that its UI seemingly cannot handle tiling window managers. Unless I manually resize each Firefox windo
by alpaca128 5y ago
The only issue I have with Firefox(and a regular one) is that its UI seemingly cannot handle tiling window managers. Unless I manually resize each Firefox window after startup the UI won't properly adapt to the actual window size.
But that is really a minor nitpick compared to the tons of issues I have with other browsers; Firefox runs insanely stable, and easily handles a large number of tabs.
- eikenberry 5y agoThat might be a bug in your window manager. Window resizes, whether automatic or manual, should send the same notifications to the software about the need for a redraw.
- alpaca128 5y agoI doubt it. It happens in every tiling window manager I've used, and only ever with Firefox. Also I've seen the same issue mentioned once by a user of a normal desktop environment, who had to toggle fullscreen in Firefox to get it to update the UI after startup. But it's just another visual bug users of tiling WMs have to deal with. Many programs handle this much worse, either crashing instantly because the WM doesn't let them have their favorite hardcoded window size, or becoming unusable from epilepsy-inducing glitches. Before I went down that path I'd have never guessed UIs(both on desktop and on websites) are so damn flimsy.
- zamadatix 5y agoFWIW I've never seen this issue on Sway (can't say for others as I haven't used them).
- preek 5y agoI think that’s specific to your setup. I run Debian SID with i3 as tiling window manager and FF is the primary browser I use. As a web dev, I have quite a few instances of FF open all the time. I can’t recall an issue with FF behaving badly when tiled. So, it’s unlikely that FF generally doesn’t work with a tiling WM.
- executesorder66 5y agoNever had this issue with bspwm or sway.