Firefox Weirdness...

[stu w]

Also, I just noticed under F11, the toolbar reappears when the cursor is
near the top of the screen. With my issue, that was not the case. The
toolbars simply stayed hidden.

On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 12:30 -0700, stu w wrote:
> *Doh!* ...I didn't even know about that, so I didn't try it. Last time
> it happened, restoring the defaults fixed it, but not this time.
> 
> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 12:03 -0700, Jared Anderson wrote:
> > F11?
> > 
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:44 AM, stu w <wien33 at cox.net> wrote:
> >         Greetings All,
> >                Something happened to me last night while browsing the
> >         net with Firefox
> >         that took me by surprise, and being a perpetual noob I thought
> >         I'd toss
> >         it up here. I came across a "Scare-ware" site that "scanned"
> >         my Ubuntu
> >         8.10 box and found a whole bunch of .exe and .dll nasties. Of
> >         course I
> >         realized immediately it was a lame attempt to scare me into
> >         buying
> >         something totally useless, but afterward, Firefox Maximized
> >         itself to
> >         full-screen, obliterating the toolbars so I couldn't close out
> >         of it, or
> >         even shut down the computer.
> >                I can see how this would be a major problem for a
> >         Windows user, but I
> >         simply changed to a terminal and used Top to end the process.
> >         Restarting
> >         Firefox and restoring the defaults had no effect on the
> >         weirdness,
> >         neither did completely uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox
> >         via
> >         Synaptic, (which was unnecessary as well, but gave me a clue
> >         as to what
> >         the real issue was).
> >                The quick and dirty fix was to delete the .mozilla
> >         folder from ~/home,
> >         forcing Firefox to create a new file upon restarting it. That
> >         seemed to
> >         fix the issue, except I had to reload all my bookmarks. I have
> >         since
> >         backed-up my .mozilla file under a different name in case it
> >         happens
> >         again.
> >                I'm just wondering if there was a simpler/better way to
> >         deal with it? I
> >         am running some Windows games and MSIE 6.0 (Misery?) under
> >         Wine, if that
> >         makes a difference, but I doubt it.
> >                Thanks,
> >                Stu
> >         
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