[Bug 816249] Re: Firefox fills screen blocking everything - F11 doesn't fix

[Leo Weltman]

After almost an hour of searching and experimenting, I found an item on the
Internet that talked about double-clicking the title bar. That did the
trick, but Firefox now always starts in full-screen mode and I have to
double-click it again to see the desktop. At least it works. I loved Ubuntu
10, but am just not crazy about the new dumb-downed desktop. I am a fairly
experienced user with time spend on both Redhat and Solaris systems and it
appears to me that Ubuntu is now more geared to the non-professional. For
instance, I spent more time than I think I should have had to the other
night just to figure out how to get a Terminal window ...then last night I
couldn't remember how I did it!  Maybe it's just early senility, but I don't
think so :-D.  Also, when I right clicked on a main menu, I expected
launcher properties that would tell where the associated app was located,
but I didn't get any information. Finally, I went into Settings and checked
the Accessories icons to have it show up on the main menu, but it didn't
appear. Ubuntu does a great job on updates, which I really appreciate, but
my experience with the new release is less than stellar and I will likely
experiment with at least one other Linux variant before committing to it.
Unfortunately, based on my experience with Ubuntu 10, I installed the new
version on my hard drive alongside Windows XP and I'll likely end up
uninstalling it. Hopefully that won't turn out to be too difficult!

Thanks for the reply,
Leo

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Walter Garcia-Fontes <walter.garcia at upf.edu
> wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better.
>
> Please make sure that there isn't anything in your Firefox profile
> causing this behavior. You can try a different profile with the
> following procedure.
>
> Start Firefox by entering the following command in a terminal: firefox
> -ProfileManager. You should now see the Profile Manager window.
>
> Important note: From the Profile Manager you are also able to remove and
> rename profiles. Be very careful when deleting profiles, if you created
> the profile in a directory that already existed, the entire directory
> will be removed!
>
> Click on the 'Create Profile...' button to start the 'Create Profile
> Wizard'. Click 'Next' and enter a descriptive name for the new profile.
> Click Finish to have Firefox create the new profile. You should now be
> taken back to the Profile Manager and the newly created profile should
> be listed. Select it and click 'Start Firefox'. Try to reproduce the bug
> with this new profile.
>
> Note: you can go back to your own profile by starting Firefox using the
> command firefox -ProfileManager again, selecting your own profile, and
> clicking on 'Start Firefox'.
>
> ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> Title:
>  Firefox fills screen blocking everything - F11 doesn't fix
>
> Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
>  Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>  Just installed Ubuntu 11.04 and started playing with it. Perhaps I hit
>  some key by mistake, but now Firefox fills the whole screen blocking
>  everything else. I hit F11 and see changes in the top menu bar,
>  enabling me to exit. However, I still cannot resize the application.
>  When I restart it, it fills the whole screen again! I am much less
>  happy with Ubuntu 11 than I was with 10 and have had much more
>  difficulty find programs/utilities ...and then finding them again.
>  Ubuntu seems to going the way of Windows and changing things just for
>  no apparent good reason.
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
>  Package: firefox 4.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
>  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>  Architecture: i386
>  Date: Tue Jul 26 01:36:38 2011
>  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
>  FirefoxPackages:
>   firefox 4.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
>   flashplugin-installer 10.3.181.34ubuntu0.11.04.1
>   adobe-flashplugin N/A
>   icedtea-plugin 1.1~20110420-0ubuntu1.1
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386
> (20110427.1)
>  ProcEnviron:
>   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
>   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  SourcePackage: firefox
>  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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