322102 - New compose window, initial insertion point is in body then jumps to address

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 143669

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Doug Hockin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

When you open a new compose window, the initial insertion point is in the body of the message rather than the address field and then moves (on it's own) up to the address field.  If you start typing very quickly you end up with the first few characters of the address in the message body rather than the address field and then once the insertion point has (automagically) moved to the address field, the rest of the characters end up in the address field.  Very disconcerting.  Completely messes up autocompletion which relies only on the characters that go into the address field.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Comment 1

[Doug Hockin]

Thunderbird 1.5rc2

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

works for me
Thunderbird version 1.5rc2 (20051201)
Windows XP

Comment 3

[u63580]

WinXP version 1.5 (20051201) (1.5rc2)  WFM

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Dupe of bug 143669?  How speedy is your computer, Doug?

Comment 5

[Doug Hockin]

It's an older computer, 900MHz Athlon.  Doesn't always happen, but have seen it twice in the last couple of weeks.  Shouldn't the fix be easy?

I'm going to mark as a duplicate as you suggest.

Comment 6

[Doug Hockin]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 143669 ***

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #5)
> It's an older computer, 900MHz Athlon.

Heh.  My system is a five-year-old 750MHz Pentium-something, running Win2K, 
but I haven't noticed this problem here; I have seen it on another, even-older Win98 system.