elementary / elementary/gala

Cannot resize some windows

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Description

### What Happened?

There are some windows that I cannot resize. They are non-modal, movable, and resizable windows (at least resizable on other OSes), but cannot be resized on Elementary OS.

### Steps to Reproduce

1. Open Firefox
2. Menu | History | Manage history
3. Try to resize the History window

### Actual results
* The window is too narrow. I cannot see the contents.
* The window borders do not show the resize mouse cursor
* The Resize button only moves the window, does not resize
* No way to resize the window

### Expected Behavior
* All window **borders** can be dragged to resize the window.
* I see the resize mouse cursor while I mouse over (hover) the window borders and while I resize.
* The top right button:
* If it is supposed to mean move, it has an icon that means move, not an icon that means resize.
* If it is supposed to mean resize, dragging it should resize the window.
![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1d11d1c2-148a-41ba-8e8d-a6a3bff4e01e)

### Specific to Gala
* It works fine on Ubuntu 24.04 Mate. I can resize the same Firefox History window there.

### OS Version

8.x (Circe)

### Session Type

Classic Session (X11, This is the default)

### Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

### Log Output

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### Hardware Info

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