i suspect this is either:
* by design, with the reasoning that captions shouldn't be long,
* more about thickbox itself than the thickbox module
* both
but here goes:

long captions in the thickbox popup make the caption extend below the edge of the window, taking prev/next navigation and the close button with it. is there a way to get thickbox to adjust it's size for long captions, or set them globally a little smaller to have more tolerance for captions?

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frjo commented

This is as you suspect a problem with thickbox.js.

The solution I could code, my JavaScript skills leaves some to be desired, would be to cut of the caption after a number of characters.

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frjo commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Please test the new Colorbox module and see it that works better.

http://drupal.org/project/colorbox

I have ported all Thickbox features to Colorbox so it should work as a drop in replacement.

When Colorbox has a stable release I will start actively recommend people to switch/upgrade from Thickbox to Colorbox. I'm the maintainer of Thickbox and a co-maintainer of Colorbox.