138620 - Select-dragging message titles in 3-pane mail window fails and drops a contextual menu

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 117589

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Jim Stoneburner]

Build: 2002041712

I start with 3-pane view of Inbox or other folder.  

Select a folder by highlighting it.  
Select and immediately drag an email title in upper right pain, as if to 
move it to another folder.  
Observe: drag fails, and a contextual menu appears instead.  
Reproducibility: most but not all the time. 
Note: I'm using a touchpad with clicking enabled, on PowerBook G3/500 
Firewire. 
Importantce: User intent may be to click-drag a spam email to trash 
without otherwise previewing it in the three-pane preview mode, in order 
to prevent any beacon gifs to be loaded.  The failure to click-drag causes 
user to click in such a way as to dismiss the contextual menu, which often 
can lead to unintended previewing of the email.  
Note: this behavior - the dropping of a contextual menu - is seen by many 
users in IE, such as clicking a personal toolbar URL... the contextual 
menu drops.  There may be a quirk in OS X that causes this.

Comment 1

[Nicolas Owens]

I theenk thees ees a doop of boog <a
href=http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117589>117589</a>

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

I think N. Owens is right. Resolving duplicate per his Comment #1.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117589 ***

Comment 3

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

verified dup