435107 - in vista, launching firefox from an application running in xp compatibility mode loads the xp theme

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Description

[James [silentj]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008051906 Minefield/3.0pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008051906 Minefield/3.0pre

in windows vista, if you launch firefox by clicking a http link from an application running in xp compatibility mode firefox will start with the xp theme

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set firefox as your default browser
2. download and install klipfolio
3. change the compatibility options for klipfolio to xp
4. run klipfolio
5. click a link to launch firefox

Actual Results:  
firefox has the xp theme not the vista theme

Expected Results:  
firefox should have the vista theme

Comment 1

[Kai Liu]

It's a little difficult for Firefox to detect that it's on Vista if Vista is masquerading as XP (which is what compat. mode does).

Comment 2

[Cyriel van 't End]

This is normal behaviour in Vista. If an app is launched using compatibility mode Aero is disabled, and stays disabled until you close the app running in compatibility mode.

Comment 3

[James [silentj]]

that's not what I'm reporting here...

Firefox itself is not set to use any compatibility mode - I'm just launching it via clicking a URL from another app running in compatibility mode, that IMHO should just launch a normal Firefox session, not one running in compat mode

Comment 4

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> that's not what I'm reporting here...
> 
> Firefox itself is not set to use any compatibility mode - I'm just launching it
> via clicking a URL from another app running in compatibility mode, that IMHO
> should just launch a normal Firefox session, not one running in compat mode

Firefox doesn't control that, Windows does.