Ubuntu
firefox package

  1. Bug #99740
  2. Comment #29

Comment 29 for bug 99740

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Jason Woofenden (jason210) wrote : Re: Firefox problems with desktop-effects

I can easily enable/disable this bug by swapping between my bad .mozilla directory and my good one.

Therefore either 1) it's a firefox preference. or 2) it's a firefox bug.

Now since I (the user) didn't change my preferences or install a plugin or anything (I think it was triggered by going to a site with a javascript popup of some kind) it has to be a bug. Either a bug that this preference can be set by a website's javascript, or a bug that this behavior can be enabled at all.

There may also be a bug in compiz and wmii... An argument could easily be made that these window managers should be able to deal with whatever firefox is doing. Regardless of that, I think firefox shouldn't be doing whatever it's doing.

For now let's keep this as a single bug report and just focus on trying to figure out what's going on.

I'll run a few experiments, to see if I can locate what file/line in my bad ~/.mozilla dir is telling firefox to exhibit this annoying behavior.