Open Bug 164338 Opened 22 years ago Updated 19 years ago

Shift key selection of messages fails when no previous message selected

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

x86
All
defect
Not set
minor

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: bsmith, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530

In the Message Title (top right) pane, selecting a message with the shift key
pressed in a folder in which no previous message has been selected, shows
multiple messages as having been selected, but in fact, none are.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Display a folder with more than one message and for which no message has as
yet been selected.
2.  With the shift key pressed, select (say) the last message.
3.  All messages from the first one to the last one appear to be selected, but
in fact none are as evidenced by the fact that no action (such as delete) works
on the group.

Actual Results:  
Multiple messages are displayed as selected, but in fact, none are.

Expected Results:  
When selecting a message with the shift key pressed in a folder in which no
previous message has been selected, only the one message clicked on should be
shown as selected.
Pretty wild bug.  Still extant in 1.4b.  Confirming.

By "in fact, none are" reporter is observing that pressing Del will not delete 
them, right-clicking and selecting Delete will not delete them, right-clicking 
and selecting Move will not move them, etc.

There are quite a few bug to be found searching on "multi select" and a few on 
"shift select" but I couldn't find any actual dupes.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
*** Bug 248159 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 224939 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Duplicate was Linux, so updating OS.  Would like to know if this is an issue for 
Macs.
Symptom also exists in Thunderbird, 0.8, Win2K.
OS: Windows 98 → All
QA Contact: olgam
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Assignee: sspitzer → mail
Still exists in 1.0.6 on MS Windows XP SP2.
Bug 213983 seems to be a duplicate of this bug (I just got an "auto-resolve01"
message on 213983, so I thought it would be a good idea to refresh a version of
the bug...).
(In reply to comment #5)
> Still exists in 1.0.6 on MS Windows XP SP2.

But not with 1.5b1, which is the *minimum* release you should have tested with 
before commenting.  Behavior (in Thunderbird only) has changed due to the fix 
for bug 280153.  Symptom still seen in Seamonkey 1.0a-0806.
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