I have had similar issues with firefox under 8.10.
There seem to be some unresolved bugs with 8.10.
I installed the swiftweasel browser from sourceforge, and have had no
issues with that one.
Regards
Chris Thomas
On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 21:18 +1300, Roger Searle wrote:
> Compliments of the season to you all,
>
> A few days ago I began having an issue with my Firefox window which I'm
> stumped on. It is an Ubuntu 8.10 install with Gnome. The window is
> always in a maximised state, where the title bar with close button is
> missing, and the bottom of the window covers a panel there. I can move
> the window to another workspace, or move the panel to another edge of
> the screen, but this doesn't help. Right clicking the Firefox button on
> the panel, I can use minimise, unminimise, or close, but not move or
> resize. I can't use the Alt key + drag the window. Fortunately I can
> Alt + Tab to another window when Firefox has the focus (or close via Alt
> + F4) since every time it gets the focus there are no other obvious
> navigation options visible.
>
> The Firefox window is the only one that exhibits this behaviour. Google
> hasn't helped so far, does anyone have any ideas on how to rectify
> this? My only idea at this point being a removal and reinstall of
> Firefox. First though I was interested to see if there is a solution or
> understanding of the situation from a list member?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Roger
