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lost close, minimize and maximize buttons how to get them back

Asked by Ed Toplikar

I have lost the red x (close), the up and down arrows for maximize and minimize the fire fox window. The file edit view etc are at the top of the screen. How to I get those buttons back or just restore my original view of firefox. I have tried restore settings but nothing changes

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James Banogon (jamesbanogon) said : 		#1

is it only missing in firefox? or other desktop applications are also being affected?

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Ed Toplikar (etoplika) said : 		#2

It was only for Firefox but I have apparently solved the problem. Thanks

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

Please tell, for others with same issue, what have you done to solve it...
or we must invalidate this question thread because it will remain solved without a valid solution in it ...

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Ed Toplikar (etoplika) said : 		#4

Here goes but I am new to ubuntu

I believe that I created this problem by making the Firefox screen

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Ed Toplikar (etoplika) said : 		#5

full screen by either hitting F11 or Full screen under view. To get this back to the original way it was I repeated this. This takes the Firefox screen and makes it half of the screen in width. Similar to a single pane allowing for another pane to be viewed. Then I clicked on "new window" under File. This opens up another Firefox window but this one has the red x the minimize and maximize buttons etc. I then close the original window that doesn't have these. From then on every time I open Firefox it's back to the way it was. I hope this helps

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#6

Thank you for your information...