130414 - Can't focus on To: or Subject line in 0.9.9

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 130581

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[mozbug1]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020310
BuildID:    2002031008

In Mozilla 0.9.9 when composing mail by forwarding or by clicking on the compose
button sometimes I can't focus on the To: or Subject line with the mouse or by
tabbing.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Forward a message
2. Try to type
3.

Actual Results:  I couldn't get the focus on the To: field to type, unless I
clicked on another window and clicked back.

Expected Results:  I should have been able to type.

Comment 1

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

reassign to ssu. If it's not for you, please reassign to varada

Comment 2

[mozbug1]

Interestingly enough I can paste to the field with the middle mouse button, but
even that doesn't give focus.

Comment 3

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

jks, which desktop manager are you using? I seeing this problem (if it's the
same) only with KDE and the recycled compose window activated.

The workaround is to activate another window and then activate the compose window.

Comment 4

[mozbug1]

I'm using KDE 2.1.  I discovered the workaround too and I thought I posted it
but I guess I didn't.  Change status to confirmed?

Comment 5

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

dup of 130581.

other Workarounds:

a) use gnome
c) turn off the recycled compose window by adding the following line into your
prefs.js file:
pref("mail.compose.max_recycled_windows", 0); 


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130581 ***

Comment 6

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup.