460448 - Newsreader: the new message header pane doesn't display references

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Ilja Sekler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081016 Firefox/3.1b2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081016 Thunderbird/3.0b1pre

Before the refactoring of the message header pane, the normal view of message headers contained also a list of clickable references, which allowed a quick navigation backwards in a newsgroup thread. This list was displayed regardless of the value of the preference mailnews.headers.showReferences (that was wrong). Now, with the new message header pane, the references are not displayed at all, even if mailnews.headers.showReferences is set to "true" (this is what this bug is about).

This applies also to View => Headers => All.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set the preference mailnews.headers.showReferences to "true".
2. Select a newsgroup message which is a reply to another message in a thread.

Actual Results:  
No references.

Expected Results:  
The references are listed.

A screenshot comparing the old and the new message header pane: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=340328

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Confirmed.

Comment 2

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

If someone wanted to come up with a patch for this, that would be great; marking wanted+ for Tb3.

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This was fixed at some stage, I think I even reviewed the patch for it. Marking as WFM

Comment 4

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

right, that was bug 482048 i believe