283173 - Upon launching, Mozilla changes the Display Resolution in Windows XP from 32-bit to 8-bit.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[aellul]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

I've been using Mozilla for some time now, and prior to that I was using
Netscape. Mozilla has been working just fine until today when this problem
suddenly cropped up.

Every time I launch Mozilla (browser or e-mail), my display resolution changes
from the 32-bit that the system is set to to 8-bit resolution.  This naturally
results in poor resolution, and the colours appear to break up and change into
some very strange colours.  This only happens when I launch Mozilla.

For the time being, I can temporarily rectify this by going into the Control
Panel and changing the Display Resolution to my normal 32-bit setting.  Closing
Mozilla and then relaunching it results in the same strange change to the
display resolution.  It appears that there must be some setting on Mozilla that
is overriding the system dispalay resolution settings.  I have even tried
re-installing Mozilla (with a newer release), and it seems that Mozilla retains
this posture.

Can someone please look into this?  It is very annoying.  I'm seroiusly
considering changing browsers.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Please refer to above
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Actual Results:  
Please refer to above

Expected Results:  
Not change the screen resolution

Comment 1

[Mark]

Do you have any machines that are not win95 that you could test on to see if the
same happens.

I certainly don't get this under 2000, XP (home & Pro) or linux :S

Comment 2

[aellul]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Do you have any machines that are not win95 that you could test on to see if the
> same happens.
> 
> I certainly don't get this under 2000, XP (home & Pro) or linux :S

I'm not sure that I understand your question - "Do I have any machines that are
not Win95 that I could test on ..."

Isn't WinXP not Win95?  Perhaps you could clarify.  I certainly don't have
access to any machine running Win95 (that's long gone.)  As I said in my first
inquiry; this happened quite suddenly - Mozilla had been working fine until
then.  It seems to me that there must be some seting within Mozilla or in a
Mozilla-realted registry entry that is changing the display resolution as soon
as Mozilla is launched.  Strange, don't you think?

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Isn't WinXP not Win95?  Perhaps you could clarify.  I certainly don't have
> access to any machine running Win95 (that's long gone.)

Comment 0 said:
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

See, that's where he got Win95 from :). You spoofed your User-Agent?

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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