Guys here is what works for me: I went to system--preferences-- appearance (funny how people leave out the middle step, which is confusing to newer users) then i chose no effects. it went back to normal. When i chose the medium grade appearance, it worked normally again, no obnoxious full screen effect coming back no matter how madly i try to remove all trace of firefox!!!
Bottom line is its an Ubuntu bug. In my case it is intrepid 8.10s fault. I will call it a high priority bug..why?? BECAUSE ITS HELLATIOUSLY ANNOYING!!!! That puts it at the top of my list. Further since my knowledge of Ubuntu is not super deep, I can only theorize that it is rebuilding some kind of config file in how the whole appearance should go, that something got corrupted. Canonical, i continue to hope in the user friendliness of Ubuntu, this is the only thing that will make Ubuntu super competitive with windows. Otherwise geeks like me will be the only ones using it. It also couldnt hurt to make it have more support for various hardware in the US more drivers. But, lets face it. WIndows is perceived as A U.S. Brand product. Linux is european, at least until you go back to Unix...anyway...WIndows will do whatever is in its power to make sure there is no other competing OS. But linux file system is better, even for solid state drives! Especially for those. Again, I dont want to pay 1 to 300 more bucks every time an OS is released. More power to Linux! Another request: MORE VIDEO GAMING SUPPORT PLEASE!!! Ok theres my rant, thanks all. I hoped my advice helped. -- Can't leave fullscreen, even after firefox restart https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267857 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
