Note, the problem seems to be getting better in general. I'm not sure if it is due to updates, or just the fact that I recently added the https://launchpad.net/~fta/+archive PPA (which has the firefox 3.1 and the latest xulrunner, etc), but firefox now seems to work correctly, and thunderbird will work after a screen resolution change once it has been minimized/restored (previously, I had to restart it altogether).
I just reported it here: http:// bugzilla. gnome.org/ show_bug. cgi?id= 561583
Note, the problem seems to be getting better in general. I'm not sure if it is due to updates, or just the fact that I recently added the https:/ /launchpad. net/~fta/ +archive PPA (which has the firefox 3.1 and the latest xulrunner, etc), but firefox now seems to work correctly, and thunderbird will work after a screen resolution change once it has been minimized/restored (previously, I had to restart it altogether).