Firefox always displays a 2 pixel white bar on the left of the screen.

[Peter de Kraker]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

The Hardy Firefox has a very frustrating bug: It always displays a very small white bar on the left of the screen.

The white bar would be expected if you run Firefox in a non-maximized window, but this is about a fully maximized firefox.
It is very distracting, not necessary and doesn't have any functional reasons for being there. Even more, it really annoys me when webbrowsing.

See the attached screenshot.

FYI: I have never observed this behaviour in Gutsy's Firefox, and also not on Firefox 3 in Windows XP.

[Peter de Kraker (peterdekraker)]

ok, the screenshot doesn't display it right, will try to find another way to capture it.

[Peter de Kraker (peterdekraker)]

I redid the screenshot with compiz turned off. I placed the screenshot in a somewhat larger black image, so you can more clearly see the unwanted border.

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

this is not firefox specific, thunderbird and many other applications (not mozilla/xul-based) show the same behavior

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

thats a theme feature/bug from what i can tell.

[Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)]

We used to use a one pixel border on maximized windows to work around a compiz bug but this was removed from Intrepid. Is this still valid with the current daily snapshot?

[Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)]

this was fixed a while ago, confirmed by reporter