891717 - Firefox fails to show its name in Windows 8.1 Start Screen

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[u408838]

Attachment: Win-8.1_StartScreen.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130618035212

Steps to reproduce:

Installed Firefox 22.0 on Windows 8.1 Preview


Actual results:

Firefox icon pinned in Start menu does not have the programme name, but only the icon


Expected results:

The Firefox tile at Start Screen should have the icon and the programme name.

Comment 1

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

Confirmed FF 22, Win 8.1

Comment 2

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

I suspect there are some icon properties we need to set. I was hoping to not have to install 8.1 yet :)

There's a new whitepaper that should cover it that is supposed to come out any day now.

Comment 3

[lbacud]

Confirmed on all Aurora builds, but not Nightly ones. For nightly, it displays the Metro version of the icon, whether or not it is set to default.

Comment 4

[Selim Şumlu]

Still not fixed on Aurora 25.
Windows 8.1 will be publicly available in 2 months, so it may be a good idea to fix this on v24 as well.

Comment 5

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

Yes this is pretty bad, I think we should track it and work on it very soon.

Comment 6

[u408838]

The logo of Firefox has been updated to a 'flat' one, and on Win8.1 the Firefox tile is still showing the old one. It would be great if this could be fixed as well.

Comment 7

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

(In reply to chenglongchingjason from comment #6)
> The logo of Firefox has been updated to a 'flat' one, and on Win8.1 the
> Firefox tile is still showing the old one. It would be great if this could
> be fixed as well.

Please use the Clone this bug feature on the bottom of the page and adjust the subject/body for that new issue.  Thanks!

Comment 8

[bhavana bajaj [:bajaj]]

Given win 8.1 will start getting prevalent soon, this will be a good fix for Fx24 to have.

I spoke to bbondy on irc on helping with this and given he's out next week he recommended jimm may be able to help.

Jimm, passing this onto you, feel free to reassign if needed.

Comment 9

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Win 8.1 won't be out till October, and we're still waiting to see if they release an rc or rtm for testing purposes early. This shouldn't hold up 24, but should track for 25.

Comment 10

[u408838]

(In reply to Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy] from comment #7)
> (In reply to chenglongchingjason from comment #6)
> > The logo of Firefox has been updated to a 'flat' one, and on Win8.1 the
> > Firefox tile is still showing the old one. It would be great if this could
> > be fixed as well.
> 
> Please use the Clone this bug feature on the bottom of the page and adjust
> the subject/body for that new issue.  Thanks!

Sorry for mixing up things. I've reported it as another bug. Thanks a lot!

Comment 11

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

> Sorry for mixing up things. I've reported it as another bug. Thanks a lot!

No worries, thanks for posting! :)

Comment 12

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

WFM in the latest 8.1 RTM.

Juan, this should probably get verified by someone in QA, curious how I should tag this bug for that?

STT:

1) install aurora
2) on the start screen click the down arrow in the lower left
3) right-click aurora, select pin to start

You should see an auroral icon show up on the start screen that has the icon and app name 'Aurora'.

Comment 13

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

\o/

Comment 14

[u279076]

Juan, can you please confirm this is WFM?

Comment 15

[juan becerra [:juanb]]

I tested this on the latest Aurora using a VM running the latest 8.1 available for download from the MS site, (Windows 8.1 Pro Preview 64-bit (6.3, Build 9431).

I followed the steps in comment #12 adding the option for making it the default browser or not. In either case, the list of Apps after clicking on the down arrow shows the right icon and the name of the app, but the pinned icon does not have the name.

Comment 16

[juan becerra [:juanb]]

Attachment: Win8.1 Aurora Icon in Start page. Name missing.

Comment 17

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

(In reply to juan becerra [:juanb] from comment #16)
> Created attachment 805342 [details]
> Win8.1 Aurora Icon in Start page. Name missing.

This was a bug in preview, it was fixed in RTM. Asa, can you verify with an RTM?

Comment 18

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

(In reply to Jim Mathies [:jimm] from comment #17)
> (In reply to juan becerra [:juanb] from comment #16)
> > Created attachment 805342 [details]
> > Win8.1 Aurora Icon in Start page. Name missing.
> 
> This was a bug in preview, it was fixed in RTM. Asa, can you verify with an
> RTM?


I see the "Nightly" name in the 8.1 RTM with yesterday's nightly build.