Firefox window blows up to more than screen size covering all

Just had this happen to move in one of two windows that was open. I
couldn't resize it because I don't know the shortcut (if any) and the
tool bars were above the top of the screen, more than covering an HP
tool bar that normally acts as a boundary for all programs opening
windows. And the bottom covered up the task bar. The other window
that was open was fine and I closed the program from the file menu.

Has anyone else ever observed this?

 

What exactly do you mean by 'move in' ? Zoom?
Undo the Zoom (or enlargement) to get the page back to 'normal' size and
you can have the toolbars back in view

 

I'm sorry.... should have said "...happen to me..."

I don't see any keyboard shortcut in Firefox help for zooming and I"m
not aware of a windows shortcut to do that, after looking a couple
places, including Firefox help and some web sites with keyboard
shortcut.. If there is one, I must have inadvertently hit that key
combination somehow. Could someone enlighten me to what that is?

I normally open all my browser winds to full screen size, which is,
vertically, bounded by the HP center tool bar and the windows task
bar. All programs I use in full window mode open this way. My task
bar is set to cover any window that extends into its territory.
So...even if I was zooming it should NOT have covered the task bar,
and I have never had anything cover the HP tool bar before either.

Jim

 

Try the menu item
View-->Full Screen

its a toggle switch. If not in full screen mode it moves it there (which
may be your 'move in'), if the view is already in full screen, then it
would return it to the 'normal view'

Full screen means full screen, it doesnt mean up to exant tool bars or
such, it means exactly what it says.
A key press for Windows is
Full Screen (toggle) F11 F11 (may depend on window manager)

so if you inadvertantly hit F11 and the page goes to full screen, then
simply hit F11 to return it to normal
Note that this key press may depend on the windows manager, so it may be
another keypress in your exact case (if you have remapped the windows
manager keys). But the menu item (View-->Full Screen) will suffice to
toggle the setting to the 'normal' view in any case

An 'add-on' toolbar such as the HP one may be overwritten by Full
Screen, as its not part and parcel of the 'Windows' program but rather a
modification of.

 

O.K. Thanks much. that's probably what I did to get it there. When
it is there is no view menu visible: The personal toolbar and the
File, Edit, View, etc menu disappear. But the little toggle view
icon in the upper right is there, having moved down to be in line with
the URL, etc line. Odd that it would work that way but I guess maybe
there's keyboard short cuts for almost everything you would want to
access from the File, Edit, .. menu.

Regarding your last sentence, why would Firefox overwrite the basic
windows task bar which has "keep the taskbar" on top checked and
"autohide unchecked."?

Jim

 

We are not even sure at this point whether it was Firefox that did it.
that 'toggle view' icon is foreign to me.
It may be some other program or windows extension that is doing this.

Try the View-->Full Screen menu item, does it result in the same thing?
Then use the 'toggle view' to regain it, if it doesnt do the same thing,
then its something else in your windows system thats doing it.