From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020107 BuildID: 20020107 When I try to minimize a Navigator window using the classic theme, nothing happens. When using Modern theme, Minimize works as intended. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open Mozilla under Classic theme 2.Click Minimize button

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I just experienced it now, with build 2002010903, and it seems to be recent, since it never happened before with earlier builds of just a few days ago. To isolate more specifically when it happens, it seems only to strike when you're browsing in a non-maximized window; at that time, the minimize button does nothing, while the maximize button maximizes as you'd expect. Then, when you've maximized, the minimize button suddenly starts acting like a restore button rather than a minimize button, bringing the browser back to non-maximized, non-minimized mode (part-screen window). You can go back and forth between maximized and restored mode, but not minimize. It "snaps out of" this, however, if you change focus to another maximized window of any other program (e.g., by clicking on something in the taskbar that's in a maximized state), after which the minimize button starts working again, and seems to keep working for the rest of the browser session. However, upon quitting the browser and restarting it again, it starts in a non-maximized mode even if it was maximized upon exit, and the non-minimizable bug is active again.

Dan, are you trying on windows ME or windows 98? Hmm. it seems that I couldn't reproduce this using the recent build (2002-01-09-06-trunk)

Problem Observed in/with: a) Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020110 b) Classic Theme I am seeing the same behavior. However, with the following sequence of steps I am able to get the 'minimize' button to work. Steps to Correct Behavior: 1) Close all Mozilla and non-Mozilla windows. 2) Open initial browser window. Minimize button should be 'broken'. 3) Open 'new' browser window. (This can be done any number of ways: File->New, Help->About, etc.) 4) Minimize button on 'initial' Mozilla window should now work, so minimize it. 5) Click Minimize button on 'new' window 2 times. It should remain visible. 6) Close 'new' browser window and enjoy the working 'initial' window. Additionally, I have observed that the 'broken minimize' has some interaction with non-Mozilla windows. Reproduce it: 1) Close all Mozilla and non-Mozilla windows. 2) Open an application (i.e. Notepad.exe) 3) Open a Mozilla browser window. 4) Switch back to the Mozilla window and minimize it (via the button). The Mozilla window should have minimized! 5) Minimize the non-Mozilla application. EEEKK! the Mozilla window has 'restored' itself. Seeing this behavior would lead me to believe that the initial 'broken' Mozilla windows is actually Minimizing and immediately Restoring itself. It may also be worthy to note that on my Windows machine, I have a 'Windows Keyboard' with the 'WinKey'. I can force the initial 'broken' browser window to minimize by using the 'WinKey + M' combination. I hope this info is useful in resolving this problem.

I'm experiencing the same problem. I reported bug 120155 which appears to be a duplicate of this bug. I've done some additional testing and found that (v 0.9.7+) build 2002010608 and later exhibit the bug while 2002010508 and earlier do not display the bug.

This problem is present in the 0.9.8 build (ID: 2002012406) for WinNT4 (SP5). I also consider that the severity should be raised to "MAJOR" at least ... it is frustrating enough to use anything else on Windows machines. Release 0.9.8 certainly deserves better than this because it underemines the promise of stability that seems to be coming with it. Dale

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120155 ***

Verified dupe