[Intrepid] New Firefox Problem

[Jim Smith]

Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> re:
>
> Today Firefox began exhibiting some odd and unwanted behavior. When it
> is started it completely fills the screen, covering up the Gnome Panels
> and its own Title Bar. Thus I am unable to resize the Firefox window or
> switch desktops with the chooser. (Or for that matter "spin the cube" by
> rolling the mouse wheel on a free portion of the desktop.) This is an
> aggravation as I am used to having more than one thing on separate
> desktops. This did not begin to occur until today after the latest round
> of updates, which included the newest 2.6.27-8-generic kernel.
>
>
> Please check these intructions taken from:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6120769
>
> "How to fix it:
>
> 1- close any firefox instance you have opened.
> 2- go to /home/<your_user>/.mozilla/firefox/ (type CTRL+H to see hidden 
> files and folders, you all know... ).
> 3- get into your "XXXX.default" directory.
> 4- search for a file called "localstore.rdf" and delete it."
>
> Regards,
>
> L.
>
>   
That worked, hopefully the gurus will fix it soon. Thank you very much,
I didn't think I was all alone in this.

Jim

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