1814889 - [win] Opening a New Private window will no longer display a private browsing icon on the taskbar

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Alexandru Trif, Desktop Test Engineering [:atrif]]

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Found in

• 111.0a1 (20230203091639)

Affected versions

• 111.0a1 (20230203091639)

Tested platforms

• Affected platforms: Windows 11x64, Windows 10x64
• Unaffected platforms: macOS, Ubuntu

Steps to reproduce

1. Open Firefox and open a New private window.
2. Observe the taskbar.

Expected result

• The newly opened private window appears on the taskbar.

Actual result

• The newly opened private window is not displayed on the taskbar.

Regression range

• Last good revision: 06679a025cf7d086f64e329727d770dd6181a41d
  First bad revision: 3ef47a8cdcfdae694bd8cfd0de140009ba7ad21e
  Pushlog:
  https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=06679a025cf7d086f64e329727d770dd6181a41d&tochange=3ef47a8cdcfdae694bd8cfd0de140009ba7ad21e
  Unfortunately, I don’t know which of the bugs is the regressor for sure. Adding both patch authors to the cc list.

Additional notes

• Attached a screen recording.

Comment 1

[Stephen A Pohl [:spohl]]

Attachment: Bug 1814889: Ensure that opening private windows continues to display a private browsing icon on the Windows taskbar. r=bhearsum

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/d1e590622e31
Ensure that opening private windows continues to display a private browsing icon on the Windows taskbar. r=bhearsum,mstange

Comment 3

[Atila Butkovits]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/d1e590622e31

Comment 4

[Alexandru Trif, Desktop Test Engineering [:atrif]]

Verified fixed with Firefox 111.0a1 (20230206092409) on Windows 10x64 and Windows 11x64. The private browsing icon is correctly displayed on the Windows taskbar when a private browsing window is opened.