Ubuntu
firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #99740
  2. Comment #47

Comment 47 for bug 99740

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In , Jason284 (jason284) wrote :

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008101315 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008101315 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.3

This problem has been extensively discussed and documented here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/99740

Now that we've figured out what's happening and discussed various workarounds/fixes we've decided that firefox should not allow javascript to trigger this strange full-screen mode. Please read the discussion on the ubuntu bugs page for rationale and more details.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Note that this bug does not appear in metacity, only window managers that support "legacy fullscreen support", such as compiz and wmii.

**Steps to reproduce :
0. Run compiz (gnome + desktop-effects) or wmii
1. Open a single instance of Firefox with no tabs open.
2. Go to http://www.htmlgoodies.com/legacy/beyond/javascript/bigsmall.html
3. Click the "Maximize" link located at the top left of this webpage.
4. Close Firefox.
5. Re-open Firefox.
6. Now the titlebar for Firefox and upper/lower panels should be missing.
Actual Results:
Firefox comes up covering the entire screen, panels and all, with no title bar or anything.

Some repart that that firefox's menu and panel are also missing.

Expected Results:
A firefox window with a title bar, etc, not covering gnome panels