418060 - Location bar drop down button looks non-native in versions other than Vista

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Description

[Andrés Delfino]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021623 Minefield/3.0b4pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021623 Minefield/3.0b4pre

Location bar drop down buttons looks non-native in versions of Windows other than Vista. Actually, I don't know if it _looks_ native in Vista, because I haven't tried it.

Here is a screenshot of how it looks now, and how it should look to be native.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Andrés Delfino]

Attachment: Current drop down button.

Comment 2

[Andrés Delfino]

Attachment: Expected native look.

Comment 3

[Andrés Delfino]

Note that Mozilla Firefox 1.0, and 1.5 did show the expected drop down style.

Comment 4

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

This was changed recently (by design).

Comment 5

[Andrés Delfino]

(In reply to comment #4)
> This was changed recently (by design).
> 

Can't you pleeeease consider a variant for Windows other than Vista? :S It doesn't fit :/

Comment 6

[Andrés Delfino]

Can someone please confirm this?

Comment 7

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

XP was considered as a first-class citizen. We wanted to make the dropmarker more lightweight, knowing that it won't be native.

Comment 8

[Andrés Delfino]

(In reply to comment #7)
> XP was considered as a first-class citizen. We wanted to make the dropmarker
> more lightweight, knowing that it won't be native.
> 

It looks non-native, and, IMHO, adds nothing but something new in the location bar.

Linux, with all the recent nativeness changes feels more like a first-class citizen.

Comment 9

[Victor Bielawski]

Vista also does not look native - it should be blue on hover and have a depressed appearance when active. 

Comment 11

[Brian Carpenter [:geeknik]]

Is this still an issue with the latest versions? If not, please close this bug as WORKSFORME, otherwise, post a comment letting us know it is still an issue.

Comment 12

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

We're not going to use a native drop-down button in the location bar.