Comment 39 for bug 99740

Revision history for this message
Taipan (callsign-taipan) wrote : Re: Firefox problems with desktop-effects

**FIX FOR THIS ISSUE**

Okay... its not the proper fix, but I assume people are just going to skim over this and not identify that TURNING "LEGACY FULLSCREEN SUPPORT" IN THE COMPIZ 'WORKAROUNDS' PLUGIN OFF will cease the issue.

I apologise for using big text, but I wanted to make sure that this is noticed by people skimming.... Obviously there needs to some kind of permanent (ie, no user interaction) fix, and as my good friend Jason Woofenden suggested, having that option disabled in compiz by default is one solution, however the issue will still remain for other window managers that use legacy fullscreen support.

Having said that, I am still under the belief that firefox itself would be the most ideal place to rectify this issue due to the fact that there are a lot of window managers, and only one firefox (please no semantics about iceweasel, swiftfox, upcoming pre-betas etc) ;-)

I'm not sure of the viability of, when firefox starts, it does a quick check of the window manager, and adjusts the identified settings of "localstore.rdf" accordingly.... I have noticed that firefox does a whole lot of work before it shows up anyway, by the huge spike in cpu load. And given this is the first time I have ever been even remotely active in a bug report, I have exactly no idea where to go from here.