582936 - Upgrade from 3.06 to 3.1 causes problems with Login Items

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[pgleesonuk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; F-6.0SP2-20041109; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Snow Leopard 10.6.4

I was running Thunderbird 3.06 with it as one of my Login items with the hidden attribute. On login thunderbird starts, checks for emails, but remains hidden (ie: on window on the screen)

After the upgrade to 3.1 the login item hidden attribute is ignored and at login a thrunderbird window is always openned.

I tried resetting login items, removing thunderbird, re adding it, but the problem remains.

Down-grading to 3.06 restores the correct behaviour.
Down-grading was done by restoring the thunderbird application from a time machine backup. No other changes to profiles etc.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. upgrade to 3.1
2. set thunderbird as login item with hide attribute set
3. restart or log out
Actual Results:  
thunderbuird 3.1 ignores the hide attribute of the login item

Expected Results:  
thunderbird 3.1 start but remains hidden

Downgradinf to 3.06 fixes the issue
remains hidden at restart / login

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Does Firefox exhibits the same behavior ?

Comment 2

[pgleesonuk]

Yes it does with the latest version

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Please close the bug WORKSFORME if you no longer see the problem when using a current version.  

Or, if you do see the problem, please comment with details.

Comment 4

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard