605695 - windows 7 reverts to classic

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 545892

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[christine]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11

when I opened a firefox page, it automatically updated itself but then a pop-up appeared and said something like, due to some details of the new firefox, windows 7 must use windows basic settings, so right now i can't personalize my desktop the way I used to. everything is working fine but i would like to use windows 7 normally and not have to automatically upgrade to a firefox that alters my windows.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open a firefox browser page.
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Comment 1

[[not reading bugmail]]

Sounds like desktop composition got turned off in the performance settings. Try changing the Windows 7 theme to Aero.

Comment 2

[christine]

I just tried it -- it still doesn't let me make detailed personalization to the windows colors, or to the set themes

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Update quicktime, java, flash, adobe, etc to the latest versions that availble for download from the developers webpages. I've seen very old versions of quicktime do this.