97464 - Mozilla toolbar displays wrong theme buttons after running NS Navigator 6.1

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Skinability, defect)

Description

[Gary White]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801
BuildID:    2001010110

Mozilla has the Classic theme applied, but displays the Modern theme buttons on
the toolbar.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

If Netscape Navigator does not already have the Modern theme applied
   Start Netscape Navigator 6.1
   Apply the "Modern" theme in Netscape Navigator 6.1
   Exit Netscape Navigator 6.1
Endif
If Mozilla does not already have the Classic theme applied
   Start Mozilla
   Apply the "Classic" theme in Mozilla
   Exit Mozilla
Endif
Start Netscape Navigator 6.1
Exit Netscape Navigator 6.1
Start Mozilla



Actual Results:  Mozilla will have the Classic theme applied, but will display
the Modern theme buttons on the toolbar.



Expected Results:  Expected that just executing Navigator 6.1 would not change
settings in Mozilla.

Comment 1

[Ryan Pertusio]

a thought/question:   Don't mozilla and Netscape share the same 'profiles'
folder? (The "Mozilla" folder within the "Application Data" folder appears to be
used by both netscape and mozilla)  Am I correct on this?  if so, then I would
expect that Mozilla and Netscape _try_ to share the same settings, chromes,
profiles.. etc.

I have followed the steps you have provided, but cannot reproduce :(
Here are my results:  Changing the theme in Mozilla changes the Netscape theme
as well.  Changing the Netscape theme also changes the Mozilla theme.  This
would indeed show that they use the same settings.

Comment 2

[Gary White]

Attachment: Image of toolbar with wrong themem buttons

Comment 3

[Gary White]

Just noticed the incorrect BuildID.  The title bar and Help/About in Mozilla
both show the build as being 2001080110.  Not sure where the 2001010110 came from.

Further investigation suggests that Navigator and Mozilla do, in fact, share the
same profiles folder.  On my Win2k machine, this defaults to:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles

Of particular note, the Navigator installation did not install the Classic theme
and my _guess_ is that this is the missing factor that made it impossible for
Robert to duplicate it.

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

If you have multiple copies of a Gecko based browser, and different copies have
different base themes installed, and you switch to a copy that doesn't have the
base theme that you were using installed then weird things start happening.

In particular if your current theme cannot be found then only the parts of the
theme that you use seem to get reset to default (look at your user-skins.rdf).

Worse, the global theme does seem to follow the browser. So when you try NS6 it
resets the global and navigator theme to modern. When you go back to mozilla it
prompltly resets the global theme back to classic... I don't understand why.

Comment 5

[André Dahlqvist]

*** Bug 98055 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[David Hallowell]

Confirming and setting platform to all, I've seen this happen many times under
Linux.

Simple fix: Netscape 6 should have its own profiles directory (this should be
done in any case), but the underlying cause of this problem should be fixed too.

Comment 7

[Joe Hewitt (gone)]

-> skinability

Comment 8

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

"Don't do that"