Firefox title bar missing in Ubuntu

Posted by Duncan Epping in November 25th, 2008

Published in Various

Just had a weird problem with the firefox title bar that wasn’t appearing in Ubuntu 8.10. A quick search on google revealed that a “F11″ to enable full screen and a “F11″ again to disable full screen was a workaround. But I don’t want to do 2 x F11 every time I start firefox. So I kept trying. For some weird reason the following combination worked:

2 x F11 to show the title bar again
Resize the browser just a bit smaller than your window
Click on maximize

Problem fixed.

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1. demz said,

November 25th, 2008 at 17:26

Hi Duncan,

Do you use Compiz ?
For me the workaround was to uncheck the box “unredirect fullscreen windows” in the compiz setting manager

2. Jason Boche said,

November 26th, 2008 at 03:07

F11 is the default fullscreen hotkey for MS IE also.

3. Joh said,

December 15th, 2008 at 16:43

How weird is that… Probably has something to do with Ubuntu remembering your window positions/sizes?

Thanks anyway – solved my problem.

4. Dr Philippe K Fenderson, KSC, ASL said,

January 21st, 2009 at 13:11

Excellent! I knew that F11 would fix it, but I’ve been having to do that for a few days now. This completely fixed my problem.
Thank you!

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