Chromium/Chrome browser has two sets of [close/min/max] buttons under Unity

[BlessedGeek]

Am I certain it is a bug?
That depends on the perspective if this is a feature or a bug. But having two sets of top left [close/min/max] buttons, one on top of the other is visually a bug.

Chrome wants to supply its own skin and close/min/max buttons. Unity wants unity in layout from windows running under it. Is it a Chrome bug? No. Unity needs to give Chrome the freedom to define its own skin and buttons and let Chrome have the freedom not to use Unity's buttons.

So this could be a bug in misalignment between Unity's and Chrome's layout strategy. Browser real estate is real precious and not to be wasted on an extra set of close buttons.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Brandon Mayes (bdmayes)]

I can confirm this is happening to me in 11.10 as well. I did not have this issue in 11.04. Just to add to this, the problem only seems to occur for new Chrome windows. I can fix it for a single window and then toggle in and out of full screen mode and it will continue to function correctly. As soon as I close the window and open a new one I am back to the same problem. Here are detailed instructions on how to repeat:

1. install chromium in Ubuntu 11.10 (sudo apt-get install chromium-browser)
2. open chromium (I keep a shortcut in my launchbar) and ensure that "Hide system title bar and use compact borders" is selected under preferences
3. double-click on the panel at the top of the screen to exit full screen mode
4. notice that there are now 2 sets of close/min/max buttons
5. right-click on the Chromium menu and select "Use System Title Bar and Borders"
6. right-click on the Chromium menu and deselect "Use System Title Bar and Borders"
7. toggle in and out of full screen mode as many times as you like -- it should remain in compact mode without any gnome buttons or borders
8. close Chromium
9. open a new window and double-click the panel at the top of the screen to exit full screen mode
10. verify that there are 2 sets of buttons again

[Alex Baggott (alex-baggott)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. We have tried to recreate this on the latest release of Ubuntu, but cannot reproduce it. This bug is being marked as Invalid. If you believe the problem to still exist in the latest version of Ubuntu, please comment on why that is the case and change the bug status to NEW.