1334855 - Every time Thunderbird refreshes, it takes focus away from the email you are working on and brings up main window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1234317

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[James]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.76 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Basically, every time Thunderbird refreshes, it kicks me out of the message I am working on. It is either when Thunderbird checks for new mail, or when the Reminder window refreshes. Either way, it seems to be happening every 5-10 minutes or though. The new message window will be brought/kicked behind the main Thunderbird window as it takes focus. You then have to go back to the message you were working on. The issue is I email a LOT of people every day in my work and I am constantly being kicked out of my window mid-type and it drives me nuts. 


Actual results:

No results yet as I haven't been able to figure out what to adjust to try and counter this. 


Expected results:

Thunderbird should be ale to refresh without adjusting the order of the windows.

Comment 1

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

I haven't seen this. Are you viewing messages in a window, a tab, or in the message preview pane

Comment 2

[James]

It just happened seconds ago. Three windows open. 1) Thunderbird main window, 2) Reminder window with a few reminders in it waiting to be finished and 3) a new message/email window. Thunderbird would be on screen and a new message window open in front of it. I will be working on typing in the email and *poof*, something refreshes and main window pops up sending the message window behind it. Gets to be quite annoying when it happens every day, all day long. I can't remember it not doing this, so who knows how long this has been happening. I wish I could record it happened, but wouldn't be able to due to the sensitivity of the information on the screen.

Comment 3

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

What is difference of your problem from bug 942610?
If Windows 10, please surely rule out problem of bug 1258152.

Comment 4

[James]

(In reply to WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency from comment #3)
> What is difference of your problem from bug 942610?
> If Windows 10, please surely rule out problem of bug 1258152.

Crazy, I searched and searched as was never able to find anything related to my experience keyword-wise. 

bug 1258152.: I do have slideshow running, but it doesn't seem to be the cause. It seems to be a refresh of sorts happening within Thunderbird and nothing else changing in the Windows environment.

bug 942610: In this situation, they say the focus was lost on the window and their typing started affecting the main program/window. Similar to my experience, only in their experience, the main window remains in the background. In my experience, the new message window is throw behind the main window.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

User is Windows 10, so this should be duplicate of bug 1234317, and should be fixed in version 52