[Bug 267857] [NEW] Can't leave fullscreen, even after firefox restart

[David Hugh-Jones]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

1. after choosing View->Fullscreen, I have no way to leave fullscreen
mode using the mouse. The menu bar is hidden. There is a grey strip of
chrome at the top of the screen, and if I move the mouse there, the
strip flickers, but I don't get the menu bar back. This problem just bit
me rather badly - I had used System->Keyboard Shortcuts to assign F11 to
"Move between windows with popup". As F11 usually toggles Firefox
fullscreen, I now had no way to leave fullscreen mode without closing
firefox.

2.... And, when I restarted firefox, I was back in fullscreen mode -
though this time, the menu bar was present. Now if I choose
View->Fullscreen again, instead of returning me to normal mode, it gets
rid of the menu bar again!

After removing my unwise shortcut, I was able to return from fullscreen
mode using F11. (So I won't be trapped with fullscreen mode forever.)
But it would be nice if e.g. the right-click menu had a "show menubar"
or "out of fullscreen" item.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep  8 19:37:38 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-2-generic i686

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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Can't leave fullscreen, even after firefox restart
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