Can't leave fullscreen, even after firefox restart
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mozilla Firefox |
Invalid
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Medium
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
1. after choosing View->Fullscreen, I have no way to leave fullscreen mode using the mouse. The menu bar is hidden. There is a grey strip of chrome at the top of the screen, and if I move the mouse there, the strip flickers, but I don't get the menu bar back. This problem just bit me rather badly - I had used System->Keyboard Shortcuts to assign F11 to "Move between windows with popup". As F11 usually toggles Firefox fullscreen, I now had no way to leave fullscreen mode without closing firefox.
2.... And, when I restarted firefox, I was back in fullscreen mode - though this time, the menu bar was present. Now if I choose View->Fullscreen again, instead of returning me to normal mode, it gets rid of the menu bar again!
After removing my unwise shortcut, I was able to return from fullscreen mode using F11. (So I won't be trapped with fullscreen mode forever.) But it would be nice if e.g. the right-click menu had a "show menubar" or "out of fullscreen" item.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 8 19:37:38 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.1+build1+
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-2-generic i686
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Aren't you just seeing the "auto-hide" feature from bug 240859? Does the address bar reappear if you move your mouse to the top edge of the screen? You can turn "auto-hide" off by right clicking the toolbar in this state.
I'm not sure it's a good idea to default "auto-hide" to on, it's confusing.