“firefox disappears, but remains open”

[Daniel Derozier]

Binary package hint: firefox

Not sure if this is a bug with firefox, compiz, or gnome-panel, but firefox is the only app where I see this behavior.

Sometimes firefox will exhibit this weird behavior:

1) Firefox appears to freeze, so I close it. The firefox entry in the taskbar remains.
2) Thinking it minimized, I click the entry in the taskbar. Nothing happens. I can deselect and reselect it again, however.
3) Turns out that it thinks firefox is maximized but isn't showing anything. I'm looking at my desktop but if i right-click, I get the firefox right-click context menu.
4) I can close the taskbar entry by right clicking -> close.

Running compiz on feisty beta. A screenshot is attached - this is what i see, but if i right-click I get the firefox right-click context menu.

I'm not sure what else to provide, but I'll be happy to give you whatever you'd need.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 2 01:20:03 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux danslap 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Do you see this bug without compiz enabled? Can you reproduce this all the time? What version of firefox are you using?

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

IMHO this is a compiz issue. I noticed a similar behavior with other apps (e.g. gkrellm).

When this happens which is the output of:

~$ ps aux | grep "[f]irefox-bin"

Thanks in advance.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

do we have a reliable way to reproduce this with compiz/beryl?

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

El vie, 27-04-2007 a las 13:29 +0000, Alexander Sack escribió:
> do we have a reliable way to reproduce this with compiz/beryl?

Not from my part. I don't use compiz/beryl anymore as I'm using a dual
head configuration with a quite old card in the second head.

[Nanley Chery (nanoman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!