42338 - [win] Splash screen doesn't display a status line

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 35866

(Core :: XPCOM, defect, P3)

Description

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Reproduced with recent daily builds (M16/M17) on Win98.

When you launch the application, the startup screen doesn't display anything. On 
the Mac, there is a status line showing "Starting up..." or "Registering native 
component foo.dll...".

Comment 1

[leger]

Moving all current open XPCOM and XPCOM Registry bugs to rayw since dp is on 
sabbatical.  rayw is now default assignee for these components.

Comment 2

[Ray Whitmer]

Does the startup screen belong to XPCOM?  I thought it was application-specific.  
XPCOM already supplies the ability to register an autoregistration listener and 
display these things.  Otherwise, the Mac could not display them.  Are these 
listeners failing to work, or are they not used on Windows?

Comment 3

[Pierre Saslawsky]

I don't know whether the startup screen belongs to XPCOM but I thought that the 
XPCOM team could easily locate who, at the application level, was providing the 
listeners to display the status string.

Comment 4

[leger]

gbush, this on final M16?  current M17?

Comment 5

[Grace Bush]

both- Win startup/splash screen has never shown status  but Mac screen does 

Comment 6

[leger]

Putting on nsbeta2 radar, though we could do in nsbeta3, is this not a feature 
to add?

Comment 7

[Jay Patel [:jay]]

Putting on [nsbeta2-] radar. Not critical to beta2.  Feature is cut from RTM.

Comment 8

[Warren Harris]

Splash screen isn't xpcom, it's xpfe. Off to Bill.

Comment 9

[Bill Law]

There's already a bug for this.  I have coded this up to work on Windows, but 
the bug was removed from the nsbeta2+ list before I could check it in.  Perhaps 
that will be remedied.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35866 ***

Comment 10

[Grace Bush]

ok