Open Bug 585398 Opened 14 years ago Updated 3 months ago

Firefox ignores the Run minimized setting in Windows shortcuts ("start /min firefox.exe")

Categories

(Core :: Widget: Win32, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Widget: Win32
Platform:
x86
Windows 7
Type:
defect

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People

(Reporter: clbertelson2, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b4pre) Gecko/20100807 Minefield/4.0b4pre Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b4pre) Gecko/20100807 Minefield/4.0b4pre I have a shortcut to start Firefox minimized at Windows startup. Instead of starting minimized it displays a normal window. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create shortcut to Firefox.exe 2.Right-click shortcut and set Run: to Minimized (in Shortcut tab on Windows properties page) 3.Start Firefox Actual Results: Firefox starts and displays a window on screen. Expected Results: Firefox starts, but stays minimized to the taskbar. This started happening a while ago. Around the time drawing in the titlebar landed. I don't know if they are connected.
bug 220546 claims it never worked ?
It was working (I don't know how long it's been fixed, I've only been using a minimized shortcut for a few months.) I went through the nightly's index. It was working last on the 2010-06-24-05-mozilla-central build. It's broken on 2010-06-25-04-mozilla-central build. The 2010-06-25-04-mozilla-central build seems to be the first build that shows a tiny window in the upper right corner of the screen on startup as well. Maybe they are related.
I meant upper left, not upper right.
confirming based on the dupes
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: General → Widget: Win32
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: general → win32
Version: unspecified → Trunk
This is fixed for me as of the 2010-10-22-04-mozilla-central build.
2011-05-14 I can reproduce the original issue.
Intermediate update: I have identified a couple problems with the minimize on startup functionality (inconsistent) and fixed one of them. I'm working on the other first before submitting a patch.
Assignee: netzen → nobody
(In reply to Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy] from comment #9) > Intermediate update: > I have identified a couple problems with the minimize on startup > functionality (inconsistent) and fixed one of them. I'm working on the other > first before submitting a patch. Brian, do you still have the draft patch?
Blocks: 854067
Flags: needinfo?(netzen)
Not likely, this is one of the first bugs I ever worked on, the patch had some problems in it if I recall so it would have to be started over anyway.
Flags: needinfo?(netzen)

Still a bug after all this time. Not a big deal of course.

Blocks: 1679702

Firefox does not start minimized. In den Firefox Einstellungen nicht. And also not via the icon symbol above properties, execute minimized option.

Severity: normal → S3
Summary: Firefox ignores the Run minimized setting in Windows shortcuts → Firefox ignores the Run minimized setting in Windows shortcuts (start min/ firefox.exe)
Summary: Firefox ignores the Run minimized setting in Windows shortcuts (start min/ firefox.exe) → Firefox ignores the Run minimized setting in Windows shortcuts ("start /min firefox.exe")
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