249615 - Switch to modern theme only sticks for one restart

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Themes, defect)

Description

[Chris Ingram]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

In Mozilla 1.7 (and 1.8a1) on Windows Server 2003, when I choose to use the
Modern theme either in the Preferences Dialog or View -> Apply Theme -> Modern
and restart Mozilla, restarting indeed switches to the modern theme, but a
second restart of Mozilla always switches me back to the Classic theme.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Mozilla 1.7 or 1.8a1 on Windows Server 2003 (NOTE: the problem does
NOT happen on my Windows XP Professional machine) either over a 1.6 install or a
clean install.
2. Start Mozilla and choose View -> Apply Theme -> Modern (also happens if you
change theme using Preferences dialog).
3. Restart Mozilla.
4. Restart Mozilla again.

Actual Results:  
2. Get message box telling me that my settings will take effect after I restart
Mozilla.
3. After first restart, the Modern theme is indeed being used.  (NOTE: if I look
in my prefs.js, there is a line that reads
user_pref("general.skins.selectedSkin", "modern/1.0"); .)
4. After second restart, Mozilla is using the Classic theme again.  (NOTE: The
line from prefs.js has been removed by Mozilla!)


Expected Results:  
4. Keep using Modern theme until I change it.


When I reinstall Mozilla 1.6, using the Modern theme works as expected.  Any
time I upgrade to 1.7 or 1.8a1, I get this wacky "switch back to classic theme
on every other restart" behavior.

Note that bug #231302 may be related (it sounds similar, but not the same).

Comment 1

[Kay Abendroth]

I also have this problem with Mozilla 1.7/1.8a1 on Windows XP. Maybe
Theme-changes aren't written to configuration file.

Comment 2

[Kay Abendroth]

Would the reporter or someone else please change KEYWORDS to 'classic modern
clean-report'?

Comment 3

[Kay Abendroth]

The problem seems to be away in Mozilla Version 1.8a2!!! Maybe the reporter of
this bug can test this on Windows 2003 Server?!

Comment 4

[Chris Ingram]

Indeed, the problem appears to be gone with Mozilla Version 1.8a2 on Microsoft
Windows Server 2003.  Woo-Hoo!  Thanks for the update, Kay.

Comment 5

[Kay Abendroth]

You're welcome!

Comment 6

[Jason Bassford]

No bug / patch referenced.

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