1584046 - Expanded newsgroup threads collapse when one post opened

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Geoff Wood]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.90 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1 - Seelect a newsgroup folder.
2 - Get Messages.
3 - Expand a thread.
4- Double-click a message to open (in my case option of in a separate window)
5 - Message opens, but the expanded thread collapses.

Actual results:

As above in '5', the expanded thread collapses (unwanted behaviour)

This behaviour started in 68.1.0 (?) and continues in 68.1.1 .

Expected results:

Message should open, and be marked as 'Read'. Expanded thread should stay expanded.

Comment 1

[Geoff Wood]

Attachment: Thunderbird 'Troubleshooting Information' dump

Comment 2

[Geoff Wood]

(In reply to Geoff Wood from comment #0)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.90 Safari/537.36

Edit '4' to:
4- Double-click a message in that expanded thread to open (in my case option of in a separate window)

Steps to reproduce:

1 - Seelect a newsgroup folder.
2 - Get Messages.
3 - Expand a thread.
4- Double-click a message in that expanded thread to open (in my case option of in a separate window)
5 - Message opens, but the expanded thread collapses.

Actual results:

As above in '5', the expanded thread collapses (unwanted behaviour)

This behaviour started in 68.1.0 (?) and continues in 68.1.1 .

Expected results:

Message should open, and be marked as 'Read'. Expanded thread should stay expanded.

Comment 3

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Attachment: newsgroup.png

Hmm, I would have thought that news threading is just like the threading in any other context.

Here's a news folder from news.mozilla.org and I double clicked the three messages you can see read in the picture. Nothing collapsed.

Do you use any add-ons? Can you try with add-ons disabled, see Help menu. Can you attach a (small) screenshot. Also, does that happen if you open the message in a tab like I did.

Comment 4

[Geoff Wood]

Attachment: Before - thread expanded.jpg

Don't use TB for email - just USENET.

Comment 5

[Geoff Wood]

Attachment: Post opened in window - thread collapses.jpg

Don't use TN for email - just for USENET

Comment 6

[Geoff Wood]

No add-ons. Tried also with add-ons disabled option selected - same.

If post open and thread re-expanded, arrowing down 'next' post does not collapse thread.

Comment 7

[Geoff Wood]

With opened message window left open (or closed) and collapsed thread is re-expanded, subsequently opened windows in that thread do not collapse it.

Problem only the first time per session of that newsgroup that for each thread that is expanded and a subsequent thread message opened, unless the first opened message is closed and re-opened - then thread collapses again. Move to another newsgroup then back to original newsgroup the problem resurfaces.

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Reporter, do you see this issue when using version 78?

Comment 9

[Geoff Wood]

All good on 78.8.0 . Has been good already for a number of updates .

Good to close.

Comment 10

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard and Comment 9