308105 - firefox crashes in full screen mode ( kind of )

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Igor Furlan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050910 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050910 Firefox/1.4

I have to be honest here. Firefox DOES NOT crash when in full screen mode (F11).
It just disapears and I could not find a way to bring it back. "ps -auxw" still
shows firefox as a running process. CPU is NOT in high gear. So, everything
seems OK  ...  but the browser is nowhere. This full screen issue is
reproducible when the FF runs on other machine and its DISPLAY is forwarded 
back to the user's workstation

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.ype "xhost +" on your workstation
2.telnet to some other (remote) LINUX box
3.set DISPLAY variable on that remote box to point to your workstation (setenv
DISPLAY 192.168.1.219:0.0) Use the appropriate TCP/IP address
4.start FF1.5 on that remote LINUX box
    You will get on your workstation GUI from the FF running on other machine
5. press F11
    poooff ...  FF1.5 went south ... gone..  lost

Actual Results:  
FF disapears

Expected Results:  
FF should be in full screen mode on the user workstation

Comment 1

[Igor Furlan]

additional info:
It seems to me that disappearance (aka "pooof behavior") is not related to the
FF1.5 in particular or to the telnet. I've tried FF1.0 on RH9 by pressing F11
few times in a row, to be precise 4-6 times. Typically, after 3 or 4 key
pressing, FF does not return. It disappears.
It is still in the process list (ps -auxw | grep fire)
Very annoying. 
User has to kill the invisible FF and than restart it. Very very unpleasant user
experience

Comment 2

[Justus Piater]

Are you using FVWM2 as your window manager? If so, this bug report is a
duplicate of bug #273856. I have FVWM2, and observe the same behavior.

Comment 3

[Igor Furlan]

I am using default KDE desktop on RH9. By "default" I mean KDE desktop which was
produced by RedHat back in RH8.0/RH9.0 times when they unified GNOME and KDE
desktop to "look&feel" very similar (on the surface).
I think that the default window manager on such a desktop is a "Bluecurve". 

Comment 4

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

Is this problem still present in the latest versions of Linux and/or Firefox?

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

@Reporter, we have not heard back from you in a while, so I am closing this bug as INCOMPLETE. You can reopen this bug if more information becomes available. Some helpful information you can provide us is found at http://quality.mozilla.org/bug-writing-guidelines. You should also use a recent version of Firefox, from http://www.getfirefox.com.