Title bar in firefox missing.

[mail2kvasanth@yahoo.co.in]

I can't see my title bar in firefox. somebody help to http://www.flickr.com/photos/click-it/2598927441/

[lisati]

I get that sometime too when I accidentally bump F11..... pressing F11 again usually brings it back again.

[rdshaw]

I am having the same problem. Firefox starts without a title bar visible. It is not running in full screen mode, because when I press f11, it goes into full screen mode where moving the mouse to the top of the screen causes the title bar to slide down. I am running the latest version of Firefox (3.0.1) and Ubuntu Gutsy current on all updates. It is more annoying than anything else, but I would like to correct it because my father is driving me crazy about it.

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Ron

[MoebusNet]

Just came up with same exact problem with FF3.0.2. I submitted a bug report, so we'll see.

Until I can figure this out, I've installed Opera through Synaptic.

[zedstrange]

ditto, and it happens from time to time with other application windows, but lately it is just firefox.

Pain in the neck, sometimes a new session fixes it, but mostly not.

[BGrigg]

This is a problem that apparently is a conflict with FF and Compiz. Try "Alt-F2" to bring up the "Run Application" box and type in (without the quotes): "metacity --replace" and see if that restores the title bar. "compiz --replace" restores the eye candy and unfortunately the problem.

[mouseware]

wow, i've been looking for a fix all night! that fixed it, thanks! so when i went back into visual effects and bumped it up to extra and its back the way it was...

happened after upgrading to intrepid, btw!

[BezNalogov]

The strange thing is that this happened to me after some pop-up (that wasn't blocked somehow) appeared. This pop-up deliberately came up without the title bar, so it was very hard to close.

I pressed alt+tab to move to another window, then I close the pop-up via the gnome panel (via right mouse click and then exit).

Ever since firefox starts without a title bar, and I have to press F11 twice to get the title bar back. It's like FF has set this as the default for a window to appear.

I removed .mozilla in my home directory and that solved the problem for me. Unfortunately I forgot to backup my bookmarks, so I lost those. So be aware when you will do this, to backup your bookmarks and understand that you will have to do all your settings again.

[lori]

The strange thing is that this happened to me after some pop-up (that wasn't blocked somehow) appeared. This pop-up deliberately came up without the title bar, so it was very hard to close.


Same thing happened to me.
It was a download from gnome-look.org which had the popup add window (third party site) which couldn't be closed, after that I had the same problem with Firefox not having a titlebar.
BGRIGG's solution worked for me except that I ran "compiz --replace" after running "metacity --replace", problem was resolved and compiz was back.

[black-max]

Thanks BGrigg! Had just installed sexy new compiz themes and was going to blame them. Worked a treat.

[duo001]

It has been a while but I got this problem again. This time I didn't want to loose all of my data, ie saved passwords, so I found the one file that is the cause. Go into your `/.mozilla/firefox/profile folder/ and remove the localstore.rdf file.

Now I'm sure with some more time someone could go in and find the exact line in that file that causes this. I just don't have that much patience.

[zika]

problem is solved with (this is the place were I learned that) http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6206588#post6206588