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

[Leo Weltman]

Walter,

Thank you. Sound advice.

Leo

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Walter Garcia-Fontes <walter.garcia at upf.edu
> wrote:

> Sticking with the issue of Firefox starting maximized, this is not a
> feature but something that must be wrong with your
> profile/configuration. In my case it starts the same way I last closed
> it, that is if I closed it not fullscreen it will start not fullscreen.
>
> Now, on your grips with the Unity desktop, you can open specific bugs on
> usability if you feel like trying to influence its design, or if you
> want to stick with Ubuntu you still have "Ubuntu Classic" in the login
> menu, or all the other flavors (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, etc). So
> plenty of choice. And of course there are other distributions.
>
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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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