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
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 : www.htmlgoodies .com/legacy/ beyond/ javascript/ bigsmall. html
0. Run compiz (gnome + desktop-effects) or wmii
1. Open a single instance of Firefox with no tabs open.
2. Go to http://
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