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Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)

5 Sep 2008 5 Sep '08

20:18

Hi, Have a couple of networked machines here and am moving away from using a single machine as a my mail server and as a workstation to using another networked machine on OpenSuse 11.0 to access the mail store and do the workstation grunt work. Recently, for some reason, and more likely because I pressed something, the Firefox window is Full screen ie there is no title bar and no KDE task bar. How can I return the Firefox window so that I can see the task bar and the application title bar? F11 makes Firefox full screen, what key combination reverses it? TIA Hylton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Joop Beris

5 Sep 5 Sep

21:40

On Friday 05 September 2008, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:

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How can I return the Firefox window so that I can see the task bar and the application title bar? F11 makes Firefox full screen, what key combination reverses it?

Try F11, see if that does it for you. (I'm betting it will). Alternatively, if you move your mouse to the top edge of the screen, you should be able to access a button to restore FF to it's normal mode (upper right corner). HTH, Joop

Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)

6 Sep 6 Sep

17:01

Hi Joop, 2008/9/5 Joop Beris :

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On Friday 05 September 2008, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:

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How can I return the Firefox window so that I can see the task bar and the application title bar? F11 makes Firefox full screen, what key combination reverses it?

Try F11, see if that does it for you. (I'm betting it will). Alternatively, if you move your mouse to the top edge of the screen, you should be able to access a button to restore FF to it's normal mode (upper right corner).

Tried your F11 suggestion and pressing the button cycles showing the first level action bar(FLAB) (File, Edit...). I also tried clicking in the top right of the window without success. What I am looking to bring back is the application name bar and also make itmaximised in the KDE window so that the application name bar and the KDE task bar are viewable. Any other ideas ie iis there not perhaps a fix by typing something in the addresss/location bar? Regards Hylton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Felix Miata

17:43

On 2008/09/06 19:01 (GMT+0200) Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) apparently typed:

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Any other ideas ie iis there not perhaps a fix by typing something in the addresss/location bar?

Sounds like maybe you have profile corruption. Shutdown FF, rename localstore.rdf in your FF profile directory to something else, and try FF again. There are other .rdf files that could be corrupted, but localstore is the most likely. -- "Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain." Psalm 127:1 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)

8 Sep 8 Sep

11:33

Hi Felix, 2008/9/6 Felix Miata :

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On 2008/09/06 19:01 (GMT+0200) Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) apparently typed:

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Any other ideas ie iis there not perhaps a fix by typing something in the addresss/location bar?

Sounds like maybe you have profile corruption. Shutdown FF, rename localstore.rdf in your FF profile directory to something else, and try FF again. There are other .rdf files that could be corrupted, but localstore is the most likely.

If I delete the localstore.rdf file and then reswtart FF, will the existing bookmarks still be reflected correctly? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Felix Miata

13:14

On 2008/09/08 13:33 (GMT+0200) Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) composed:

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2008/9/6 Felix Miata :

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On 2008/09/06 19:01 (GMT+0200) Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) apparently typed:

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Any other ideas ie iis there not perhaps a fix by typing something in the addresss/location bar?

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Sounds like maybe you have profile corruption. Shutdown FF, rename localstore.rdf in your FF profile directory to something else, and try FF again. There are other .rdf files that could be corrupted, but localstore is the most likely.

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If I delete the localstore.rdf file and then reswtart FF, will the existing bookmarks still be reflected correctly?

I don't know what your "reflected correctly" means. Deleting localstore.rdf does not change bookmarks.html, so nothing it contains will be lost or changed. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.rdf -- "Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain." Psalm 127:1 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)

9 Sep 9 Sep

08:47

Hi Felix, Tnx for telling me which file to rename etc. I did this after shutting down FF and then restarted FF with the result :( Any other ideas? How about uninstalling FF, renaming the FF directory under ~/.mozilla, and then reinstalling FF? Regards Hylton 2008/9/6 Felix Miata :

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On 2008/09/06 19:01 (GMT+0200) Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) apparently typed:

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Any other ideas ie iis there not perhaps a fix by typing something in the addresss/location bar?

Sounds like maybe you have profile corruption. Shutdown FF, rename localstore.rdf in your FF profile directory to something else, and try FF again. There are other .rdf files that could be corrupted, but localstore is the most likely. -- "Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain." Psalm 127:1 NIV

Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409

Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Felix Miata

09:28

On 2008/09/09 10:47 (GMT+0200) Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) composed:

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Tnx for telling me which file to rename etc. I did this after shutting down FF and then restarted FF with the result :(

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Any other ideas? How about uninstalling FF, renaming the FF directory under ~/.mozilla, and then reinstalling FF?

Uninstalling/installing is virtually certain to be a total waste of time. There's a profile troubleshooting howto somewhere on Mozillazine. I suggest you try to find and follow it. Barring that, ~/.mozilla/firefox is not the home of your profile data, but rather some dir pointed to in ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini. Better to launch FF from a shell prompt using the -profilemanger switch, and create another profile to use to prove that the problem is within your profile. Before doing that, and assuming you'd like to preserve other profile data, I suggest you start FF in safe mode first, to see whether the problem then goes away. In case it does, you should next try disabling any installed extensions. In case that does not work, you should try deleting *.rdf in your profile dir. If that works, you'll have retained bookmarks, cookies, remembered passwords, and a bunch of other settings. -- "Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain." Psalm 127:1 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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