Firefox expanding to fill entire screen, no bar, drop down access

[barbfl]

After I launch Firefox which I have done for years, yesterday it started automatically expanding to fill whole screen, meaning leaving no search bar, no file/edit/view/history/bookmarks, etc.

I did try to install software no such luck. See below screenshot. Well you see the white of the browser fills entire area of my screen, with the Google bar in the middle and that is it. -- and making it larger or smaller with command mac controls does nothing.

Also, I must command Q out of it, I cannot even command W to close.

Note: You see the top search bar for a SPLIT second (BUT NEVER THE MENUS ON TOP) then it moves up and all you get is this big white screen. Thanks - mac here 10. 6.08. Thanks for help - any ideas what this is or what I can do? I am afraid I have lost all my bookmarks too (no way to access those either or is there?).

 

[newtekie1]

Press F11 or F12?

 

[Toothless]

As @newtekie1 said.

But more exact, F11. It toggles fullscreen,

 

[barbfl]

Thank you so much for your help. No that does nothing (well f11 clears the screen and f12 brings other programs on) but does not fix problem. And one correction, Control W does close it.

 

[Jetster]

Funny mine did that yesterday. I just put my mouse art the top and it dripped down then I changed it back

 

[barbfl]

When I do f11 all it does is the entire browser opens up like a window and goes off the page. That's it. Again, one thing that may be of note is right when it launches for about one second, it looks like this, just a big white screen but with search bar, then expands up the screen to the previous shot.

Any ideas? Do you know if I can get my bookmarks somehow?

 

[barbfl]

Funny mine did that yesterday. I just put my mouse art the top and it dripped down then I changed it back

What do you mean mouse art? I am not so tech savvy (at least with computers!)

 

[Jetster]

I put the mouse at the top and it dropped down

 

[barbfl]

Yes I tried that and it does drop down but just to this below - no access to all the file/edit/bookmark/menus ....(and not my normal url bar) ... and no access to my actual computer which is normally there in upper right (time, battery, wireless, spotlight), etc... . any thoughts? thank you.

 

[barbfl]

Fixed! Yay! Thank you both! After you suggested I put my cursor at top, even though I did not get access to everything, I went and pressed everything visible I could and one of them was the three bars at right where there was a full screen toggle!!!! Done. Thanks! Happy weekend!