I dont get to see the minimize/maximize/close buttons, when I start my Firefox web browser

[pritam292]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Am a Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy Heron - released in April 2008 user.
Sometimes when I open my Firefox Web Browser, I am not able to view the minimize,maximize,close buttons on the top.
I have Compiz seetings in my system. But, i tried checking a lot but could not land up with any solution.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 9 16:06:50 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_IN.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

[Tom (tom6)]

F11 key a couple of times? Maybe the unmaximised window is larger than the display and resolution settings. Can you drag the maximised window down and then change firefox's size?

[Dana Payne (danapayne7)]

F11 twice worked for me -- thanks much. This was following the upgrade to 3.0

[Tom (tom6)]

Glad it worked :)

Did my answer only work after upgrading to 3.0.4 or was it that the problem only started after upgrade to 3.0.4?

Anyway, good luck and thanks :)

[Dana Payne (danapayne7)]

Tom,

thanks,

actually, I'm still having the problem and part of it is that every time that Firefox opens (this is all new, after the upgrade to 3.0.4, wasn't around before), I'm missing the min/max/close buttons and have to dink around with the F11 button. At least I know how to deal with it for the short term until the bug is fixed, it's not actually a huge inconvenience (not like the problems I had with IE7/spyware on a Windows machine last week). The Firefox issue I'm having is under Ubuntu.

appreciatively,

Dana

> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:37:26 +0000
> Subject: [Bug 295907] Re: I dont get to see the minimize/maximize/close buttons, when I start my Firefox web browser
>
> Glad it worked :)
>
> Did my answer only work after upgrading to 3.0.4 or was it that the
> problem only started after upgrade to 3.0.4?
>
> Anyway, good luck and thanks :)
>
> --
> I dont get to see the minimize/maximize/close buttons, when I start my Firefox web browser
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295907
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “firefox-3.0” source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
>
> Am a Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy Heron - released in April 2008 user.
> Sometimes when I open my Firefox Web Browser, I am not able to view the minimize,maximize,close buttons on the top.
> I have Compiz seetings in my system. But, i tried checking a lot but could not land up with any solution.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sun Nov 9 16:06:50 2008
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=en_IN.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
> Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

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[FelipeDarder (pilipe)]

FF 3.05/AMD64 still having this issue. I guess it could be some compiz-metacity related misbehavior. But firefox it's the only application doing this.

Console says this:
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property `GtkTreeView::odd-row-color' of type `GdkColor' from rc file value "((GString*) 0x1df8660)" of type `GString'

[pask (pasquale-saccone)]

FF 3.05 Mozilla Firefox for Canonical Ubuntu 1.0, UBUNTU 8.10
In my session Firefox open without min-max-close button and the Ubuntu status bar doesn't appears when I move the mouse in the bottom of screeen (I have like windows start menu), but in other session (another user) is it all ok...WHY?

[pritam292 (pritam-rath)]

When I update my UBUNTU 8.10 the under-mentioned error comes up and thus my package manager is not updated
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Could not download all repository indexes

The repository may no longer be available or could not be contacted because of network problems. If available an older version of the failed index will be used. Otherwise the repository will be ignored. Check your network connection and ensure the repository address in the preferences is correct.

Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/edgy/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

[era (era)]

@pritam292: as far as I can tell, your problem is unrelated to what is being discussed here. Please don't hijack and reassign an existing bug report to submit an issue about an unrelated new problem. Instead, report a new bug (after investigating that an existing report doesn't already cover your case).

[era (era)]

Oops, I see now that you were the original reporter of this bug. Still, bug reports should be per issue, not per submitter.

Ubuntu Edgy (6.10) was announced to have reached End Of Life around a year ago. The EOF notice for Gutsy (7.10) was published recently http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-7.10-eol so I guess in conjunction with that they finally turned off the archive for Edgy.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 99740, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Tom (tom6)]

Sorry, try one of these work-around's and possible preventative measures about the resizing issue that seems to be part of this problem
https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/209499/comments/21