1187290 - Delete key does not delete message if "Find in this message" is in focus

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0
Build ID: 20150629114049

Steps to reproduce:

1. Highlight message
2. Press ‘Delete’ key


Actual results:

1. Nothing


Expected results:

1. Message should be deleted

Comment 1

[Carla Curtis]

I have this happen, often, and seemingly randomly.
I finally got frustrated enough to do a search, and found that the summary at the bottom of comment 8 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122854#c8 (basically, just hit the tab until the message gets focus) allowed me to delete the message.

I watched where the focus was, and it was (in a half-dozen tries) on the (optional) find line at the bottom of the message pane (that is, the line that appears when you hit CTRL-F to search).  I closed that find line, and the problem disappeared; I'm able to delete with the delete key with no focus weirdness.

I will pay attention to my usage, and see if this is the key to the "random" behavior.

Figured I'd put this out there in case it helps someone else.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Carla Curtis from comment #1)
> I have this happen, often, and seemingly randomly.

How often is "often", in hours, days, etc?

> I finally got frustrated enough to do a search, and found that the summary
> at the bottom of comment 8
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122854#c8 (basically, just hit
> the tab until the message gets focus) allowed me to delete the message.

great observation and detective work!

> I watched where the focus was, and it was (in a half-dozen tries) on the
> (optional) find line at the bottom of the message pane (that is, the line
> that appears when you hit CTRL-F to search).  I closed that find line, and
> the problem disappeared; I'm able to delete with the delete key with no
> focus weirdness.
> 
> I will pay attention to my usage, and see if this is the key to the "random"
> behavior.
> 
> Figured I'd put this out there in case it helps someone else.

Comment 3

[Carla Curtis]

how often?  It's when I have the "find" line at the bottom.  (hours, days, etc - isn't relevant)

When I close that "find" line, the delete key works normally.

I hope it'll be fixed - because it was such a PITA to make that connection.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

This is by design. Keyboard operations follow the focus which is in the find funciton. You must exit "find", which can be done with the escape key.
Hope that helps

Comment 5

[Carla Curtis]

Have you repro'd the issue?

Focus can be elsewhere, even with the "find" line enabled.