568758 - Firefox allows content from other windows to bleed through

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 545892

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Roman R.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100527 Minefield/3.7a5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100527 Minefield/3.7a5pre

See attachment. It's ugly. Started a few days ago.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Roman R.]

Attachment: screenshot

Comment 2

[Jesper Hansen]

Like Chrome browser in the background and windows Aero effect.

More description please?

Comment 3

[Jennifer Morrow [:Boriss] (UX)]

This is part of the new Aero theme for Windows.  If the Aero theme results in the UI being unreadable, please feel free to file a bug.

Comment 4

[Roman R.]

Yeah, like Chrome browser or whatever happens to be in the background.

Jennifer, is having ugly, dirty looking UI not enough? I can see another program's window through Firefox's window! What's the benefit of that? This has been done just because it could be done?

Comment 5

[Jesper Hansen]

What Boriss means is you need to write up a better bug report.
Something with the title like: "[Windows][Aero Glass] Make is possible to change opacity"

Comment 6

[Roman R.]

She should've said that if she meant it. She clearly has a good grasp of English.

Making it possible to change opacity isn't going to be sufficient for everybody. I am sure most people don't need to be able to see through Firefox's UI. And most of those who can't stand the effect won't find a way to change it. A theme with this useless capability should be offered as an alternative theme and should be called Theme For Crazies.

Per literal request of Jennifer, I am attaching a screenshot of what the window has turned into after some time of use. It shows words being difficult to read.

Comment 7

[Roman R.]

Attachment: words difficult to read

Comment 8

[Roman R.]

Attachment: even worse

Look at the 3rd screenshot! It's even worse. Look at the left hand side.

Comment 9

[Roman R.]

Attachment: and even uglier

I thought the previous screenshot showed possible worst outcome, but now I present to you a mixture of Firefox with (underneath it) Paint.NET and Foobar (a music player). Forward this to whomever came with the idea to have the semitransparent theme for Firefox.

Comment 10

[Roman R.]

That was with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100530 Minefield/3.7a5pre.

Comment 11

[Rob Arnold [:robarnold]]

Do you still see this on newer builds? We've reworked some of the code that manages glass and the titlebar since then.

Comment 12

[Roman R.]

Rob, I couldn't take it anymore and simply disabled transparency in Windows. I haven't seen a single program (and I've used many) in which transparency was of any value. (This doesn't apply to images with transparent backgrounds.) I find blinking text on web pages more useful and a small brick under my pillow more comfortable than transparency in software UI.