Firefox 4 strange dialogs

[Jim Byrnes]

NoOp wrote:
> On 05/02/2011 09:53 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>> Alex wrote:
>>> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Jim Byrnes<jf_byrnes at comcast.net>   wrote:
>>>> Using Firefox 4.0.1 on Ubuntu 10.04. I'm seeing dialog boxes that have no
>>>> title bar and no icon next to the text displayed.  All I see is the border
>>>> of the dialog with a grey background, the text message and any OK,Cancel etc
>>>> buttons.  This seems to happen with modal dialogs but non-modal ones seem to
>>>> display as expected.
>>>>
>>>> An example would be the dialog Yahoo mail pops up when you delete the last
>>>> message from the spam folder.
>>>>
>>>> Is anyone else seeing this and know of a fix?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,  Jim
>>>
>>> Like this? http://puu.sh/1Qd3
>>
>> Yes.
>>>
>>> That's how those dialogs are supposed to look in Firefox 4.
>>>
>>
>> That seems strange in light of what NoOp said in his reply to me.
>>
>> NoOp:  I can post a screenshot if needed but this is exactly what I am
>> seeing.
>
> Not seeing that at all. Perhaps an add-on issue? How did you install FF
> 4.0.1? I simply extracted to a home folder and run it from there. You
> might also try a different user profile to see if it is something in
> your profile causing the issue.
>

I installed and run it exactly like you describe.  Created a clean test 
profile and there is no change in how they look.  The only pulgins 
(other than the defaults) are Adobe and flash.

As a test I tried the Firefox version that comes with 10.04 and that 
displayed them as it should.

Regards,  Jim