why does FF take up the entire desktop?

[Dale Farnsworth]

>   Whenever I maximize Firefox in Ubuntu, it takes up my whole desktop.
>  Its really irritating because I have to press Alt-F9 to minimize it,
> as the window controls are gone (it super maximizes it, the header on
> the window is not visible nor is the other Gnome desktop controls).
> Any ideas on why this is happening?  This is the Gnome environment.

I saw a similar problem when my graphics card didn't support the
latest and greatest features.

Try setting Main Menu-> System->Preferences->Appearance->Visual Effects
to None.

-Dale