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Firefox title bar missing in Ubuntu

Duncan Epping · Nov 25, 2008 ·

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 says

    25 November, 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 says

    26 November, 2008 at 03:07

    F11 is the default fullscreen hotkey for MS IE also.

  3. Joh says

    15 December, 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 says

    21 January, 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!

  5. Jeff Davis says

    22 October, 2009 at 21:56

    Vexing problem now fixed. Thank you very much.

  6. Gaston Lebourgeois says

    24 September, 2010 at 09:24

    Exactly where could it be, i would like you just read more about this article, thank you.

  7. srinivas says

    30 May, 2011 at 13:51

    Your tip re.2xF11 is very useful when the titlebar is AWOL.How do I resize the window to ensure that by default the title bar appears and repeated 2xF11 is not needed?

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist and Distinguished Engineering Architect at Broadcom. Besides writing on Yellow-Bricks, Duncan is the co-author of the vSAN Deep Dive and the vSphere Clustering Deep Dive book series. Duncan is also the host of the Unexplored Territory Podcast.

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