1499120 - Losing my view locations with SeaMonkey v2.49.4's multiple tabs for e-mails...

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Ant]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.4

Steps to reproduce:

1. Have multiple downloaded e-mails.
2. Read one and scroll to its bottom.
3. Open a new tab in and read another e-mail.
4. Go back to the original tab with its original e-mail.


Actual results:

It goes back to the beginning of the e-mail instead of the bottom.


Expected results:

It should have taken me where I left off. It's annoying if I need to go back and forth.

I was told Thunderbird has this problem too.

Comment 1

[bblack]

SeaMonkey/2.53 shows the same behavior.

Comment 2

[bblack]

I think that the Bug 1010731 in Thunderbird has to be fixed first.

Comment 3

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

probably something in the gecko editor. I doubt it is fixable in the near future unfortunately.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to bblack from comment #2)
> I think that the Bug 1010731 in Thunderbird has to be fixed first.

compose and reader would have the same root cause?

Comment 5

[bblack]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #4)
> (In reply to bblack from comment #2)
> > I think that the Bug 1010731 in Thunderbird has to be fixed first.
> 
> compose and reader would have the same root cause?

As I understand it, in both cases it is about the reader.
I take that from the description in both bugs and that's what I tested in SM2.53.

I do not know the dependencies between SM, MailNews Core and Thunderbird yet in the detail.
But after Frank has moved this bug from SM to MailNews Core, I think this bug might be a duplicate of the bug 1010731.
Or SM has to port this bug from Thunderbird?

I do not know why Frank put that on Composition.

Comment 6

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

I might be wrong but I think the editor component is used to display the mail. It might even turn out to be a core bug. If you think this is not the editor I will better move it back to SeaMonkey.

Comment 7

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

(In reply to Ant from comment #0)
> Actual results:
> It goes back to the beginning of the e-mail instead of the bottom.
> Expected results:
> It should have taken me where I left off. It's annoying if I need to go back
> and forth.
> I was told Thunderbird has this problem too.

Indeed. Making a tab active again re-renders all its content from scratch (sometimes even with a different/correct charset, see bug 1287336). And that loses the scroll position. Has that ever been different?

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

This does not happen when switching tabs in current versions of Thunderbird. (I have just closed bug 1010731)
It does happen however when switching folders.