268387 - loading page animation is black and white not colour (its in top right of screen, left on tab)

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Geoff Lawrence]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2

On my Windows 2000 machine the animatation which indicates a page is still
loaded is in grey scale, but on my Windows 95 machine (Preview Release) it is
colour.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load any we page, e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk
2. Watch the circular animation
3. Observe colours

Actual Results:  
It is in grey scale

Expected Results:  
Nice colours

This is a cosmetic, nice to have!

Comment 1

[ffolkes]

I'm using PR2 on XP-Home, and it's grayscale for me too. I was never even aware
it was supposed to be color.

Comment 2

[Patrick]

always been grayscale on my computer....
http://lxr.mozilla.org/aviarybranch/source/browser/themes/winstripe/browser/Throbber-small.gif

looks grey to me?

Comment 3

[Geoff Lawrence]

(In reply to comment #2)
> always been grayscale on my computer....
>
http://lxr.mozilla.org/aviarybranch/source/browser/themes/winstripe/browser/Throbber-small.gif
> 
> looks grey to me?

I have just upgraded my Windows 95 box to Firefox 1.0 and it is still colour,
would be nice to get this on other platforms too. Please?

Comment 4

[Patrick]

do you have any custom themes installed on your computer?
can you provide a screenshot of what you're seeing?

do you observe any other color differences between your two machines?

Comment 5

[Geoff Lawrence]

Attachment: Screenshot of colour animation with Help->About screen

This is what I see on my Windows 95 box.

Comment 6

[Patrick]

Thanks for the screenshot!

Hmmm... funny thing here is that BY DESIGN it should be b&w, by error you get a
color, and you _want_ the error version :-\

As to the cause : i can only think that this is caused by graphic drivers,
monitor color alignement or color settings.

All in all, your report would then be: change the throbber to another one. There
have been many request for other throbbers and themes etc. and usually they're
not very succesful....

Moving this to Firefox - GENERAL 

Your fastest way around this is to install a custom theme i think.

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 8

[Geoff Lawrence]

From my point of view my Windows 95 box is running Firefox 1.0.7 and has the
very nice colour throbber. It would still be nice to get it on other platforms,
I think it looks better. I appreciate this is seen as an error and that I like
the error but given that very few people will be running Firefox on Windows 95
they will not see this and want what they are missing out on!

Geoff

Comment 9

[[e-mail]]

Geoff - Win95 is not part any more of the system requirements list
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/system-requirements.html

Hence, I reckon we can ignore this as a serious bug (=~wrong behaviour).

Nevertheless, your idea to make the deviant behaviour a standard is certainly an enhancement request. Confirmation as enhancement will hopefully lead to consideration by the right people and a possible WONTFIX if the change is undesirable.

CONFIRMING.
Severity: ENHANCEMENT.

Comment 10

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

We're not going to make the throbber multicolor at this point.  We might do something around visual refresh time but it really won't look like this.