281844 - Possible attempt by Microsoft to make task switching difficult with MS Office

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Eric Bregman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: 

Recently, switching windows with MS Office running has not worked -- e.g., 
Word to Firefox browser to Outlook to Excel.  All programs are running, but 
switching on the task bar does not bring up the window; must minimize the 
running program to switch.  This does not happen unless Firefox is one of the 
programs.  This problem does NOT happen when I use IE.  Is anyone else having 
this problem?

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Close down programs and restart without Firefox.  Task swtching works well.
2.Restart Firefox.  After 10 minutes or longer, problem re-emerges.
3.

Actual Results:  
Could not switch tasks by using task bar or by using Alt-Tab.

Expected Results:  
Should have been able to switch tasks.

The problem does not arise when I use IE instead of Firefox.  Also, I have 
installed all service packs for MS Office through SP-3

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Do you have a lot of disk swapping activity if you try to switch the apps?

Comment 2

[Eric Bregman]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Do you have a lot of disk swapping activity if you try to switch the apps?

No.  I don't think it is an issue of swapping to the hard disk.  The other app 
is "there" and running and I can get to it by minimizing the app on screen, 
but I can't get to it by clicking on the other app on the task bar or by using 
Alt-Tab.  If I close all apps and start them up again, the problem goes away 
intitially, but comes back in a while.  

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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