firefox hides menu bar in full screen mode

[ethana2]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

In one month I'm going to in all probability buy an Ubuntu Dell Inspiron with a display that is 1440 by 900 pixels. I don't want to waste that space, so I customized my firefox such that /everything/ is in the menu bar, and there is no navigation bar. Because the navigation bar does not exist, I have no control over the window state via GUI when in fullscreen mode. I should be able to customize firefox such that the window controls are /also/ in the menu bar, and the menu bar is, of course, displayed by firefox when in full screen mode. ..I also want those controls when firefox is not in full screen mode.

I'm going to get rid of my window title bars because they're just a waste of space, and it may be a while until the gnome window list is fixed up (switched from button widgets to tabs and has simple window controls added, autoexpands, uses bold text for in-focus window title, etc. ..so having window controls in my firefox menu bar would be extremely handy for me.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 22 11:05:18 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

May I suggest fullerscreen plugin?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4650

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Fullerscreen will bring in the navbar when you are near the top of the screen (auto-hide)

Furthermore, you can get into the navbar with Ctrl+L

Is there anything else you need?

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided.
Please feel free to reopen this bug with further information if you
still experience this problem.

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