Comment 5 for bug 307636

Hi Makh!

Just yesterday I solved the problem after 3 or 4 days trying several
things. What I did was deactivate the driver (go to
systems->administration->hardware drivers). After the driver is
deactivated, go to the terminal and get into /etc/X11 and make a backup copy
of the xorg.conf file; say xorg.conf.back, and delete the original file.
Then type: sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-177. After the install, do: sudo
nvidia-xconfig and reboot. Once you are logged in, activate the driver
again and that ought to do it. It did it for me. If you fail to login
reboot on recovery mode, get a terminal line and get rid of the new
xorg.conf file and reinstall the back up one giving it the original name.

Cheers

2008/12/26 makh <email address hidden>

> i have the same bug
> i have ubunto 8.10 and firefox 3.0.5
>
> --
> Firefox browser hides desktop task bars
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/307636
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> Status in "firefox-3.0" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Firefox hides desktop top and bottom bars as soon as one of the hardware
> drivers "NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers versions: 177 or 173" is
> activated.
>