Comment 6 for bug 99740

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Darryl Grennan (darryl-grennan) wrote : Re: Firefox problems with desktop-effects

Re-opening this bug as I still have it. I'm running a fully patched Hardy system.

Here's how to replicate the bug. You need to have Ubuntu's "Visual Effects" enabled to trigger this.

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.

You will also notice that the "Edit--> Preferences" will open under the browser instead of on top as well as the "Downloads" window.

To get Firefox back to "normal" you need to:

1. Press "F-11" twice.
2. Click the "Maximize" button at the top right of you Firefox Window.
3. Notice that your top panel disappears but the bottom one remains present.
4. Right click on the Firefox process within your bottom panel and click "Move"
5. With your mouse, drag the window down a bit so that you can manually resize it to your ideals.
6. Hit the "Maximize" button again and it should be back to "normal".