591015 - firefox 4 beta 4 cannot press minimise, maximise and close buttons and UI overlaps

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[AndyB]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b4) Gecko/20100818 Firefox/4.0b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b4) Gecko/20100818 Firefox/4.0b4

there is an overlapping issue with the tabbed UI, as a result I am unable to access the minimize, maximize and close buttons.

images to illustrate issue:
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p34/andybno1/firefox01.jpg
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p34/andybno1/firefox02.jpg
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p34/andybno1/firefox02.jpg

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.closed tabs and firefox, reopened firefox and open a new tab
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3.
Actual Results:  
the same thing as illustrated in images

Expected Results:  
the same as I expected to happen

not overlay and allow access to the full interface

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Those screenshots look weird. Is there a persona installed? If yes, does removing it solve the problem?

Comment 2

[AndyB]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Those screenshots look weird. Is there a persona installed? If yes, does
> removing it solve the problem?

not sure what you mean by a persona installed, I have had to give up on the beta as it was becoming impossible to just use it as you would expect it to be used

Comment 3

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Could you test the latest nightly and see how it looks?

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Also please try a fresh profile for testing purposes:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles

Comment 5

[George Carstoiu]

Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b10pre) Gecko/20110117 Firefox/4.0b10pre

Have you managed to reproduce issue and can you provide some steps to reproduce?

Comment 6

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug has been marked as CLOSEME for several weeks and the date on the tag is far past. If the reporter is still able to reproduce, Please retest with Firefox 3.6.15 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). Then remove the CLOSEME tag, mark the proper version and comment on this bug.