1286831 - [Win10] Firefox tile from the start menu only shows 2 sizes instead of 4

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Cornel Ionce [:cornel_ionce], Desktop Release QA]

[Affected versions]:
- latest 50.0a1 Nightly
- latest 49.0a2 Aurora
- Firefox 48.0b7
- Firefox 47.0.1

[Affected platforms]:
- Windows 10 x86/x64

[Steps to reproduce]:
1. Right click the Firefox executable and select "Pin to start".
2. Hit the windows key and right click the Firefox icon.
3. Select resize and pick one of the values.

[Expected result]:
- There are 4 sizes you can choose between: small, medium, wide and large.

[Actual result]:
- Tile in the start menu has only 2 sizes: small, medium

[Regression range]:
- This issue is not a regression.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Does this still happen on nightlies including bug 1232679?

Comment 2

[Katie Broida [:ktbee]]

Cornel, are you sure that Firefox's start menu tile is able to be resized to wide and large? It doesn't look like Windows supports that for non-Microsoft apps:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn393983.aspx#Specify_images

Comment 3

[Andrei Vaida [:avaida]]

(In reply to Katie Broida [:ktbee] from comment #2)
> Cornel, are you sure that Firefox's start menu tile is able to be resized to
> wide and large? It doesn't look like Windows supports that for non-Microsoft
> apps:
> 
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn393983.
> aspx#Specify_images

I can confirm that this is the expected behavior, thanks Katie!

Comment 4

[(Away until May 24) Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

This looks like it is not actually only for non-Microsoft apps, but only for Windows Store apps.

Comment 5

[(Away until May 24) Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Per https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn393983.aspx,

Tile design best practices specify that if your tile is not a live tile, it should not claim the extra screen space required for wide (310x150) and large (310x310) tiles. Because a desktop app's tile is always static and never live, those additional tile sizes are not supported in this schema.