[Bug 276640] Re: MASTER The firefox window takes up all of the screen, impossible to reduce size and cannot access the close, reduce and clear screen options. The page also flickers when the mouse passes over certain areas of the screen. Firefox home page appears as a tiny page in the middle of the screen.

Tom TomDavies04 at Yahoo.Co.Uk
Fri Jun 12 10:41:27 UTC 2009


*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 99740 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/99740

Duplicate status is right (the other 2 issues here are fairly trivial to
fix ime) but several work-arounds have appeared in other duplicates of
99740 so i thought i'd help people by mentioning them to save them from
hunting around.

In addition to the workarounds already mentioned in this thread it might
be worth checking your

Edit - Preferences - Content - Enable Javascript - Advanced - Allow
javascript to resize!

Untick this box to prevernt javascript from being able to resize your
firefox console to something larger than the desktop screen's
boundaries!

I think the flicker is a gstreamer issue to do with ati and nVidia cards
(for once intel don't seem to suffer lol) this is something to do with
multimedia in a webpage, even if its not on the tab you're currently
looking at.  A clue would be other multimedia apps flickering but even
if the flicker is just on firefox it might be worth trying

Applications - Accessories - Terminal

and type in

gstreamer-properties

on the Video tab change the "Output" from "Auto" to "...(no Xv)" this
usually stops the flickering after restarting firefox but if it doesn't
then you may want to reset this to "Auto".  The "... (no Xv)" pulls the
graphics work away from the gpu on the graphics card and makes the cpu
do the work instead, although it doesn't seem to mind the extra work at
all.

Finally the issue the size of the page being viewed appearing tooo smal
- try Ctrl + or Ctrl and roll the mouse wheel.  Once it's at the right
size then try re-bookmarking the link and it should appear the right
size all the time now ;)

Good luck!
Thanks and regards from
Tom :)

PS Tkep 2008-10-13 Violas are great too, my flatmate attempts to
slaughter one occasionally but she's getting better and was even in
danger of getting a good tune out of it the other week ;)

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MASTER The firefox window takes up all of the screen, impossible to reduce size and cannot access the close, reduce and clear screen options. The page also flickers when the mouse passes over certain areas of the screen. Firefox home page appears as a tiny page in the middle of the screen.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276640
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