472284 - Thunderbird does not clear selected attachment when switching to another email

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 317699

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.19 (20081209)

When you click on an attachment in an email and then click on another email that also has attachments Thunderbird still thinks you have the attachment in the first email selected. The context menu for the second email works against the first email.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select an email (email1) that has an attachment.
2. Click on the attachment in the panel to select it.
3. Click on a second email (email2) that also has attachments, but do not click on an attachment.
4. Right click on the attachment panel (but not on an attachment).
Actual Results:  
You get a context menu for the attachment in the first email (email1). You can see that we have 'Open' and 'Save as' etc enabled, even though you do not have an attachment in the current email (email2) selected.

If you select 'Save as' from the context menu you get a save dialog for the attachment in the first email (email1).

Expected Results:  
Clicking on a new email in the list should clear the attachment selection giving you no selected attachments. This would give you the correct context menu offering 'Save all', 'Detach all' etc.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

wow.  happens on trunk too. 

Did you search to see if this bug is already reported?

Comment 2

[Not interested in Mozilla any more]

I did look but I didn't find anything.