280596 - Firefox launched from ShellExecute() does not honor nShowCmd flags.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[karl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux) (KHTML, like Gecko)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

If Firefox is the default browser ShellExecute() with nShowCmd SW_SHOWNORMAL  
will open the URL but the window will not appear if it is minimized. 
 
The MSDN documentation states: 
SW_SHOWNORMAL 
Activates and displays a window. If the window is minimized or maximized, 
Windows restores it to its original size and position. 
 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make Firefox the default browser.  
2. Open Firefox and minimize it.  
3. Run a program which calls ShellExecute on an HTML file.  
  
  
Actual Results:  
Firefox loads the page.  

Expected Results:  
Firefox loads the page and opens the window on the desktop.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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