70261 - Profile Manager starts minimized and no splash screen

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 66866

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

I have been having this problem since before the dawn of time.

When I start Mozilla the profile manager starts minimized and there is no 
splash screen. Actually the splash screen is a new thing. It used to appear 
behind all the windows, but now it doesn't appear at all. Yes I made a new 
profile, but what does that have to do with anything? Profile manager hasn't 
loaded yet. Yes, I have built myself and downloaded builds. Yes, this is 
reproducable (at least on my computer).

I am on windows 2000 and have a build from 2/22.

This is not a persistance of window bug is it? 

I wish there was a severity for annoying, because that is what this bug is. And 
I want to see the splash screen after Moz 1.0.

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

i never have seen this, but am on win98. have you tried a new profile?

Comment 2

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

forget that, i did not see you tried.

Comment 3

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

I don't believe this is a problem on Windows 98. This also happens on the 3/10 
build. Timeless was talking about Windows 2000 not allowing Windows to be 
brought to the front without permission from the user and that all they can do 
is flash. I see the splash screen once in a while, but not all the time. 
Sometimes it seems the program loads too fast to see the splash screen, 
although for a couple seconds there is nothing on the screen at all. When I do 
see it once in a while, there are no windows on the screen so they don't 
interfere. If there are no windows on the screen, the profile manager appears 
on startup too. If there are any other windows open, though, it doesn't appear 
in front, but behind the windows. I verified this by minimizing windows until I 
saw it.

Comment 4

[Fabian Guisset]

Worksforme win2k all builds. Order of appearance after clicking on the icon:
Console, splash screen above it, then a moz window appears behind both the
splash and the console, then the splash disappears.
This leaves the console in front of mozilla.
Profile Manager comes up fine.

Comment 5

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Ok, the splash screen now appears. If you click on another window while 
loading, the splash screen disappears and then the profile manager appears 
behind all the other windows. The profile manager should appear in front of all 
the windows no matter whether the splash screen was hidden by clickin on 
another window. I think that is the problem. For instance, if I load Mozilla 
and then click on a window to continue typing and then want to go back to the 
profile manager when it loads, I never see it appear. I'm not sure if the main 
window does the same thing.

Comment 6

[Ken Snider]

This is a dupe of bug 66866.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 66866 ***