123471 - scroll position forgotten in thread pane

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 10872

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Michael Wardle]

I have my mailnews thread pane displaying newest messages at the bottom (thread
order is oldest->newest).  If I enter a folder, scroll down to the bottom of the
message list, select another folder, then come back to the original folder, the
thread pane is reset to the top (where the oldest message appears).

It would be nice if either:
a) the scroll bar remembered where I was
b) the thread was automatically scrolled to the newest message

Comment 1

[Michael Wardle]

Idea b) seems to be related to bug 76961, bug 80604, and bug 99466.

Keep this bug for discussion of idea a) as summary suggests.

Comment 2

[Michael Wardle]

It sounds like it's meant to scroll to the newest message if there are new
messages.  If there's no new, messages, however, the thread view is always
scrolled to the top.

Again, I think it should do a) or b).  In essence, b) means if there's no new
messages, the view should scroll to where new messages are expected to be (this
is actually the bottom if I'm viewing oldest->newest), rather than always to the
top.

Comment 3

[Alfonso Martinez]

dup of 10872
  [FEATURE] Remember last selected message in a folder

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 10872 ***

Comment 4

[laurel]

marking verified as a duplicate

Comment 5

[Michael Wardle]

spawned two new bugs to elaborate each concept, as neither is quite the same as
the bug this was marked a duplicate of.

concept a) - bug 123655
concept b) - bug 123656