firefox problems

**spedax** · February 20th, 2009

hi,

I'm having some problem with firefox,
Its alwayse maximised, and it goes over my dock and my top panel.
It also dosen't show the minimize, maximize and close button on the to right.

I don't really wanne reinstall my firefox since I have massive amount of plugins/logins I need to set up every time I get a fresh install.

I really have no idea how this happend, it used to work fine.

Hope someone knows how to fix this!

edit: also when I alt tab and it comes at the firefox window it starts to flicker really badly

Thanks in advance

**superfoor** · February 20th, 2009

Sounds like it is starting it Fullscreen mode. This happened to my girlfriend and seems to be a common bug. Hit f11 and let me know if that changes it back.

**spedax** · February 20th, 2009

nope, wasen't the problem,

but now when I go out of the full screen mode, it pops up below my top panel, but its still goes behind my dock and the buttons are still gone.

strange stuff ^^

thanks for the fast reply!

**velja27** · February 20th, 2009

Yea that happened to me too.After visiting some suspicious sites that happens,just unmaximise it and turn it off then when u turn on your Firefox it should work ok.That dose the trick for me at least.

**spedax** · February 20th, 2009

ah yeah thanks, after pressing f11 twice and then maximizing got it fixed.

Yeah it happend right after getting a spam pop up that maximized it like that. Thanks allot for the help.

**superfoor** · February 20th, 2009

It might also be a compiz issue do you have Visual Effects on?
if so try turning them off at System>Preferences>Appearance>Visual Effects tab.

Let me know if this is the issue.

PS do you have close, min, max buttons in other windows it would looks like the top usually orange bar is gone that's what it looks like when emerald or compiz goes nuts.

<edit> Ohh nm well good deal.