144813 - Must hit F9 twice to toggle mail sidebar open

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 135070

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[laurel]

Using may12 pr1

It takes two hits on F9 to toggle the mailnews sidebar to open state.

1.  Launch mail with sidebar closed.
2.  Hit F9 to toggle it open. Nothing happens.
3.  Hit F9 again, sidebar opens.

Comment 1

[Chris Hester]

I have Mozilla 1.0 2002053012 on two PCs. One of them *never* displays the
content of the sidebar when opening the browser. It's just a grey rectangle. I
too have to press F9 twice to get the content to show. (Once to turn the bar
off, then once again to bring it back up.)

Yet on the other PC the sidebar comes up with content when Mozilla starts.

The two (same) builds were installed within days of each other, though the PCs
have very different (but normal) specs.

All I can think is that on the problem PC, I previously had Netscape 6.2 installed.

Comment 2

[Chris Nelson]

I see the same behaviour that Chris Hester described. I never use my sidebar in
Mail, but now every time I open mail it now displays an empty sidebar (no tabs).
Hitting F9 closes it, and hitting F9 opens it again, with all the sidebar tabs
visible. This is a recent bug, but I'm not sure exactly what build started it.

Comment 3

[Chris Nelson]

This behavior has gone away on Win32 trunk build 2002062608.

Comment 4

[Greg K.]

Possible dup of bug 135070.

Comment 5

[Benjamin Smedberg]

There is a patch on Bug 135070 that should resolve this issue.  Marking duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135070 ***

Comment 6

[laurel]

marking verified as a duplciate