Stop links panel resizing when link info is shown

In Illustrator CC -
Aside from all the other minor (yet annoying) bugs I've experienced with the new CC and the newest iOS, Yosemite, I've recently had some issues with my workspaces. I had my workspace just how I wanted it; now I know I should have saved this, but I've never had a problem before with the program remembering where I had everything. Well, it for some reason glitches out the other day and removed every single panel I had on the right hand side of my screen. Not wanting to mess with recreating the arrangement I'd had before, I figured I'd just use one of their pre-made workspaces - Printing and Proofing. It's close enough to what I need. Now I just have one question - is there any way to get the link panel to stop resizing every time I click on a link to display its info? When I select a link to check its PPI and scale and whatnot, the link location is long enough that is pushes out that window to be double its original width or more. It's extremely annoying as it then covers a lot of my canvas. I can resize the panel back to where I want it, and it sometimes remembers this width if I select that link again, but not always. Any ideas for a fix for this? Is there a simple setting that I'm just not finding?
Thanks in advance.

I have the same issue and it is most annoying. Every time I do something in Illustrator, I have to reset my workspace.

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