307366 - .html file icons not changing after setting Firefox as default browser

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

Seen on Windows Fx 1.4 build 2005-09-07-07-mozilla1.8

-Have IE or Mozilla suite set as the system default browser.
-Install the Firefox branch nightly
-When prompted (or in Options) ensure Fx is set as the default browser
-Save the start page to your desktop

tested results: the icon for the saved html file is still set to the previous
default icon (the blue e or the red mozilla)

expected results: the icon should be the Firefox globe

I'll nail down the regression window.

Comment 1

[Mike Schroepfer]

Nom to put on 1.5b1 radar

Comment 2

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

hmmm, after some back tracking, it seems this has been around since before the
mozilla1.8 branch.  I have for quite a while been switching the default browser
back and forth between Moz suite and DP (branch and trunk). I could swear I
first saw this only recently.   

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

this seems at least partially broken in firefox 1.0.6. we should investigate and
fix for b5. 

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I believe that the icon change actually happens in both 1.0.6 and 1.5 beta 1 but
it requires a restart to show. We need to somehow rebuild the windows icon cache
when we take over handling these file types.

Comment 5

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

Hmmmm, restart worked just once for me.  That is until I reset Moz Suite as
default, shut it off, launched Firefox and set it as default, restarted it, then
saved a page to my desktop.  Get Moz icon instead of Fx icon.

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Not a blocker, there doesn't seem to be a documented API for forcing the icon cache rebuild, but someone could try to figure out what TweakUI does and use that.  Will take a safe patch for this.

Comment 7

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Seems like the installer code already tries to do this, could just be ported to the Shell Service. There might also be a saner way of doing it than toggling a registry key.

Comment 8

[Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] 🇵🇱 - (please needinfo? me - so I will see your comment/reply/question/etc.)]

This can probably be closed, because WFM

Comment 9

[Cosmin Muntean [:cmuntean], Ecosystem QA]

Firefox: 48.0a1, Build ID  20160403030243
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0

Hi Tracy,

I have tested this issue on the latest Firefox (45.0.1 - Build ID: 20160315153207) release, latest Nightly (48.0a1) build, and is no longer reproducible. If I make Firefox or Nightly as a default browser, any ".html" files are displaying the correct Firefox or Nightly icon.

Considering this I will mark this issue as Resolved-WORKSFORME. If anyone can still reproduce it, feel free to reopen the issue and provide more information.

Thanks,
Cosmin.