opens in popup window only

[seh62]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Firefox will only open in a popup window not in a regular window. Seamonkey works fine. Any suggestions?
I'm using Ubuntu Studio 8.10 on a Dell Inspirion laptop, everything else works fine.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.13+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 2.6.27-14-generic x86_64

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Sometimes Firefox profiles can become corrupt and/or extensions can conflict. Could you please try this with a new profile and see if the problem still exists? You do not need to delete your old profile to test. If this helps, you might want to try to disable all your extensions and re-enable them one by one until you find the problematic one.
firefox -ProfileManager

[seh62 (seh62)]

Thanx,
Works fine with a new profile.
Haven't found the offending extension.
-seh62

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

I'll leave this as Incomplete while you hunt for the extension causing the issue.

[seh62 (seh62)]

I believe the problem was caused by an earlier installation of a
linuxant modem driver, or possibly the use of linuxant's utility
scanModem.

I ran scanModem, which did not detect my modem, a Zoom 56K USB modem.

After some digging around, I downloaded and installed what appeared to
be an appropriate driver, which worked but firefox began only opening
in a pop-up window.

I have since removed the previous driver and no longer have a copy to
give a name or version, but it was a linuxant alsa driver for a 64bit
linux system.

The current installation of alsa-driver-linuxant v.1.0.19.4-1 seems to work fine.

I downloaded the modem driver on the windows side and transferred it to the Ubuntu side for installation, so I never opened firefox in between the running of scanModem and the driver installation.

But, I tend to believe running scanModem caused the problem.

There hasn't been any problem since creating a new profile.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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