why does FF take up the entire desktop?

[Joshua Zeidner]

  Thanks to all of you!

  Pressing f12 solved my problem, but I will try to get a better
understanding of the things everyone mentioned.  I'm not really a
Gnome expert, current circumstance has moved me to Gnome desktop for
my regular laptop.

  -jmz

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
> You might also check to see if you are running maximus or some other addon
> that is mostly intended for netbooks to maximize your use of screen real
> estate.  BTW, that is standard for distros like ubuntu NBR (UNR)
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>  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.
>>
>> thanks, jmz
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