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same problem - very annoying -

the ....force-reload command suggested above sadly makes no difference for me (the other user had already logged out)

any other work arounds apart from...

Thanks - fixed the problem for me too :)

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then selected CLEARLOOKS theme (instead of default - Ambiance)

resizing now ok.

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I had the same problem but all I had to do to fix it was enter this command on a terminal screen :-

sudo...

I had the same problem on a newly setup machine. (thinkpad t43)
I couldn't copy or paste from within firefox. First I tried a URL, then just some plain text from an open google docs document - no...