Closed Bug 71295 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Disable the splash screen.

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

x86
Windows 2000
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: ink, Assigned: law)

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Details

With the stabillity and speed of mozilla I do not think that the splash screen
is needed anymore. It is more of a annoyens than a help.

More over it also make mozilla seem "old". No new apps uses splash screens anymore. 
And the current splash screen is not pretty or informative in anyway.

We should be able to turn it off in preferences, so it only will show up on
first lauch of mozilla.
The -nosplash command line option manually disables the splash screen.
i suggest marking this invalid
mozilla -nosplash works for me on windows.  there is already a bug to make the 
splash screen more informative.
erm, right => law
Assignee: matt → law
Component: Preferences → XP Apps: GUI Features
I concur with timeless.  The splash screen is a dead snake.  There was a bug
that prompted us to add it and in that bug it was successfully argued that we
had to have it.  If you disagree...well, you lost that argument.

"-nosplash" is there for those who have objections.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Ok. I lost the argument.

But why not add the -nosplash option to preferences.
Many do not known about the -nosplash command option, and where should the
"normal" user find out about that. I for one did not know about it before I
heard it here. If it was in preferences everyone would have a change to disable it.
vrfy invalid. there's another bug for --help working in the general case.

again, this is not worthy of a preference. you can always add -nosplash to your 
shortcut.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
It doesn't work adding a "-no splash" pref, per se, because then we wouldn't
know whether to show the splash screen till very long after it would do any good
to show it.

We *could* store that particular pref elsewhere, but I don't have the time to do
that, and it just isn't worth the time or trouble.
*** Bug 124844 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 162460 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
IMHO, the -nosplash command line option is not enough. You have to add this
option on every shortcut. And if you click on an external URL, double click and
.html file on Windows Explorer, or another application opens an html file, the
splash screen still appears.

I tried to modify the registry settings in orther to add "-nosplash" on every
invocation to mozilla, but as soon I opened Mozilla a message saying "Mozilla is
not the default browser" appeared and restored the original registry settings.

The best solution would be to add a global way to disable splash screen.
(Perhaps an empty/invalid bitmap on Mozilla Dir?)

Please reopen.
Product: Core → Mozilla Application Suite
Component: XP Apps: GUI Features → UI Design
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