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| 1444077 | 2018-01-02 23:42:00 | For historical reasons I'm stuck with 32 bit OS until I buy a new 64 bit OS, the Firefox 57.0.3 I use is therefore 32 bit. There could be a difference in the icons, I don't know, but mine revert to as shown by 1101 in post#6 whenever there is an update. I suppose having different icons for 32 & 64-bit versions could be useful if anyone needs to use both. I said 'transparent background' in my last post. Of course, that should have been 'white background'. |
Jayess64 (8703) | ||
| 1444078 | 2018-01-04 03:38:00 | Further to my posts on the Firefox shortcut issue, I was using my laptop a moment ago. There is a shortcut to a website I maintain on the desktop and I realised that the background is black (or dark grey)! Firefox version is 57.0.3 64-bit, just like my Desktop PC, so bang goes that explanation. I created a new web shortcut and got another dark background. Back on the desktop PC I made a new web shortcut - and got a transparent background (not white!). I think it is time for me to retire in some confusion. |
Jayess64 (8703) | ||
| 1444079 | 2018-01-04 04:10:00 | I suppose the theme you have and the desktop background colour will or may affect the colour of the icon background. Basically my desktop is almost the same as since Windows 95, with a blue/green background, white icon text enlarged so I can see it, I don't like change :) and abhor transparent taskbar, so a util to make that opaque. After Win 7 it has become increasingly difficult to personalise the screen just how I'd like it. In Win 7 there was access to a multitude of personalisations, but they have gone. One reason I like Win 10 which is on an older ex-Win7 machine and fast is that I don't have any of the MS crap or MS accounts that Digby was raving on about in the other post :clap So it can be said to be a Win 10 Lite :banana When it was first installed I tried Edge, what a load of rubbish, and they tried to say it was work in progress, so out it went, well as far as it can be. Get it right first time or not at all ! |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1444080 | 2018-01-04 22:11:00 | Firefox 57.0.4 update downloaded today. The two test icons, one having an icon from shell32, and the other the original Firefox white background icon but applied from where I'd saved it, not from within firefox.exe, are both unchanged, as expected. Other icons which were white background replacements in firefox.exe have now changed to black backgound. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1444081 | 2018-01-05 07:47:00 | I don't think I can add anything useful to this discussion, but I have found it a very interesting exercise. My original problem is that "recently" (last couple of months), when I create a desktop shortcut to a website I get the shortcut with the Firefox logo on a clear background, but I cannot change the icon to something more meaningful. The Properties window of the shortcut makes no provision for changing the icon. I have access to 5 PCs, 2 desktops and 3 laptops ranging in age from 2 years to neolithic, all running fully updated Win10 and all with Firefox 57.0.4 or 57.0.3, all 64-bit. My main desktop shows no sign of the 'dark background' Firefox logo in shortcuts to websites. The other 4 PCs all show the behaviour you have been describing, with the added difference of it being possible to change the icon by right-clicking the shortcut. The dark background FF icon must be embedded in the FF exe file, which is why it appears when you create a shortcut. Why I don't see it in my main machine is a mystery to me, as is the difference in the properties of the shortcuts that I see. Since generating shortcuts is under the control of Windows and I am using the same Windows versions in all PCs, I can only conclude that there must be a subtle settings difference or hardware effect going on. It is all of no real consequence and I know how to work around my particular issue, but it is a bit unsettling in that you have to wonder what else is lurking under the surface. |
Jayess64 (8703) | ||
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