new firefox windows take up entire screen

[Harrison]

Binary package hint: compiz

This bug only occurs when using Compiz (when using Metacity there are no problems). Also, this problem occurs even with a clean Compiz configuration.

When opening a new Firefox window (either on Firefox startup or just a new window), it takes up the entire screen, even cutting off the panels, etc. The only way to fix the size is to use F11 to fullscreen it and then press F11 again to un-fullscreen it. I attached a screenshot.

I am using a fully updated Ibex.

[Harrison (harrisonchen)]

example screenshot

[Harrison (harrisonchen)]

Fixed with latest Firefox update (3.0.5).

[Suparshwa Shah (suparshwa-great)]

what you do my friend is,

1) keep pressing F11 again and again till time Firefox leaves full-screen mode.
2) now you re size it to half of screen (i mean leave maximized mode)
3) Close Firefox
4) open Firefox, now your firefox will open in same manner you closed it (filling half screen)
5) now you can maximize it and close it again so that when you open it next time it will open maximized.

i hope you get it ( the key is linux remembers the size and position of windows closed last time )

[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)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/209499/comments/21