Ubuntu
firefox-3.0 package

Firefox only opens in a form of windowed mode

Bug #311392 reported by Darkgryffin on 2008-12-25

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #99740: [MASTER] Firefox problems with desktop-effects. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

After an update of Ubuntu 8.10, Firefox started to open in a form of full windowed mode. The only way I have found to manipulate the window at this point is to hit F11 twice, once to actually put it into full windowed mode, then again to pull it out of full windowed mode. Additionally, when clicking an active link opening it in a tab, it will likewise put Firefox into the this strange pseudo Full Windowed mode. Visually the only problem with the window is the top bar is missing, the window edge is the File toolbar, with no way to close the window, minimise, or grab it. I am running a fully updated Ubuntu 8.10, with Firefox 3.0.5+nobinonly-Oubuntu0.10.1, on a Gateway MT3707 standard configuration. Firefox has been updated twice since this problem first appeared. I was wondering if there was known problem between the two programs, or this is something that is a result somehow of the hardware I am running.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
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 2.6.27-9-generic i686

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Darkgryffin (darkgryffin) wrote on 2008-12-25:

FirefoxProblem.png Edit (64.0 KiB, image/png)
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ExtensionSummary.txt Edit (746 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
profiles.ini.txt Edit (94 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote on 2009-05-05:

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.