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== Test Hardware & Environment Information ==
===Hardware===
===Operating system===
Windows Vista Ultimate.
Build 60001000+2000+3000.
Running via Parallels in OS X.
== Default Browser Behavior testing ==
Image:bon echo browser options work in startmenu.png|Start menu with Firefox as the default browser
Image:Firefoxinuninstallprograms.JPG|Firefox listed under Installed Applications
== Vista Themes and Firefox ==
I was unable to test Firefox with the Glass Aero theme. However Firefox looked fine with both the classic and the new Vista theme.
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Image:Vistatheme-noaero.JPG|Firefox running under the default non-aero Vista theme.
Image:windowsclassic.JPG|Firefox running under the Windows Classic theme.
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== Firefox Behavior at different DPI levels ==
For this test case I used the 120 DPI preset.
All the main drop down menus were checked for rendering issues.
Firefox options window was checked for rendering issues.
Add-ons, Downloads and Bookmark organizer were also checked.
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Image:DPI Font change.JPG|DPI scaling in Windows Vista.
Image:120dpi font.JPG|Firefox & 120 DPI.
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== Firefox & Helper applications ==
The helper applications used for this test case were:
:*Skype
:*mIRC
:*Windows Mail [ I also had Outlook installed but had set Windows Mail as my default mail client ]
I created a HTML document with the following source code:
<pre>
<a href="irc://irc.mozilla.org">irc://irc.mozilla.org</a><br>
<a href="skype://abcd">skype://abcd</a><br>
<a href="callto://abcd">callto://abcd</a><br>
<a href="callto:abcd">callto:abcd</a>
<a href="callto:abcd">mailto:abcd@abcd.com</a>
</pre>
Skype and Windows Mail opened just fine. mIRC however did not launch.
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Image:irc.JPG|Firefox was unable to launch mIRC.
Image:skype1.JPG|skype:// Skype opened.
Image:skype2.JPG|callto:// Skype opened.
Image:skype3.JPG|callto: Skype opened.
Image:clickonmailto.JPG|mailto: Windows Mail opened.
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== Firefox & Plugins ==
'''Testing Adobe Flash'''
#Checked a youtube video in order to see whether or not Flash is already installed.
#Visited ESPN.com
#Was prompted to install Flash in order to view some of the elements in the page.
#The ''Plugin Finder Service'' found the plugin i needed.
#The plugin was installed successfully and I was able to view the Flash elements.
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Image:noflash.JPG|Flash plugin not installed.
Image:needflash.JPG|Prompted to install Flash.
Image:installingflash.JPG|Adobe Agreement thing.
Image:flashinstalled.JPG|Flash is successfully installed.
Image:flash works.JPG|The Flash player works!
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#Attempted to play a streaming video on CNN.com.
#Windows media player was not detected even though it was installed.
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Image:windowsmediaplayercnnpipelineihad11.JPG|Windows Media Player not detected. Even though it is installed.
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== Firefox & Printing ==
For this exercise I attempted to print CNN.com's main page. Since I didn't want to actually print the document on paper I printed the webpage to a MS Office XPS document.
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Image:printing screwed FINE.JPG|How the page looks like.
Image:printing screwed BAD.JPG|How the page looks after it's printed.
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== Firefox & Saving files ==
The same file "mirc.exe622.exe" was saved to the following two directories
:*C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
:*C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Credentials
With an Administrator account no problems were encountered while saving this file to the two directories.
Things changed when I used a Standard user account:
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Image:ssfilesave.JPG|C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
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Image:ssfilesave2.JPG|C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Credentials
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== Rendering Issues ==
While testing Firefox with Windows Vista i came upon the following rendering issues.
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Image:Printing dialog render issue.JPG|Printing... dialogue window.
Image:didnotrender.JPG|Options window. Notice the bottom border for 'Warning Messages'' is missing.
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