Hello,

On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM Caspar Schutijser <caspar@schutijser.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2025 at 10:28:58PM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote:
> > I don't mean to hijack this thread, but, since you state
> > testing new release of the tor-browser, I'm curious if
> > the issue of file-chooser window being too large has
> > been fixed?  Or is it that I'm doing something wrong?
> >
> > As a reference, this is my post to misc@ mid-March:
> >
> > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=174226879107461&w=2
> >
> > That post got zero replies.
>
> Hmm, I have missed that email. When anyone is sending an email about
> Tor Browser to the mailing list, feel free to CC me to make sure
> I see the message.

Got it.  I made a poor choice with my subject line.

> > I don't know if that is
> > an indication that no one else experiences the same issue
> > or that not many people use the browser.
>
> Over the past year or so, this has been reported to me multiple times
> (in private). So it seems to be a problem that affects more people.
> I have spent some time debugging it but I didn't get very far,
> in part because I don't really know what to look for.

I completely understand.

> In the past I have been able to reproduce it, but funnily enough, the
> File Chooser window looks fine on the one computer I have with me
> right now (with both Tor Browser 14.5.7 and 15.0a3). Interesting... I'll
> see if I can look into it a bit more soon.

All laptops in my disposal have very low resolutions: 1366x768.
I wonder if that may be playing a role in confusing things within
the code. I will try to install the package on a desktop and see
if there is any difference.

Thanks for listening.
--patrick


> I didn't know that it might have something to do with pango so that's
> a useful bit of new information for me, thanks.
>
> Caspar
>