On Going for Years: Windows 7 taskbar some times hidden with FF 7.0.1
I've noted that this problem has gone unanswered for years. Occasionally, passing my cursor to the bottom of the monitor screen fails to reveal W7's taskbar. If I restore FF down to a smaller screen size, then the taskbar will pop up when the cursor is passed to the bottom.
Because this is a random problem, it is very difficult to definitively determine just what causes it. But I'll say that it seems to happen when KeeFox is being manipulated in some manner. And, can be temporarily put straight by fooling around with restore/maximize...
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For those of you who are interested in this problem, it appears that it is a Window's bug dating back to Vista and has yet to be fixed by MS. This problem has also been reported with IE and Chrome, but not Maxthon (been a long time user of the latter and never had this problem). The easiest workaround appears to be clicking the Windows button to recover the taskbar. You can read about this problem on these two urls:
http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers-mail/195149-win7s-autohide-taskbar-function-defeated-maximize-firefox.html#post1642658, and http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/019916b1-1018-4580-930b-f35d49ce50c5/
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For those of you who are interested in this problem, it appears that it is a Window's bug dating back to Vista and has yet to be fixed by MS. This problem has also been reported with IE and Chrome, but not Maxthon (been a long time user of the latter and never had this problem). The easiest workaround appears to be clicking the Windows button to recover the taskbar. You can read about this problem on these two urls:
http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers-mail/195149-win7s-autohide-taskbar-function-defeated-maximize-firefox.html#post1642658, and http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/019916b1-1018-4580-930b-f35d49ce50c5/