why does FF take up the entire desktop?

[Joshua Zeidner]

  sorry folks, thats f11 !

  -jmz

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
>  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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>>
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