166278 - Compose new mail has keyboard focus inside the mail at first instead of address-field

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 143669

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Fredrik Aminoff]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

When pressing Ctrl-M (Or choosing File-New-Message) the keyboard focus is first
moved to the body of the mail and then up to the address-field (To:).
This is rather anoying if you are used to pressing Ctrl-M and then start typing
the e-mail address you end up with the first characters of the address inside
the body of the mail.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press Ctrl-M
2. Watch the cursor move from the body of the mail and then up to the address-bar


Actual Results:  
The cursor is in the right position but if you are fast in your typing the
address you type is broken since the first part is inside the body of the mail.

Expected Results:  
Put keyboard focus directly in the addressing-field (To:)

Comment 1

[Nick Lott]

Umm, this is the same as Bug 166121. I just posted a comment there, but it would
have been better off here.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Fredrik Aminoff: are you seeing this problem with a current build?  I just 
checked in 1.3 Final and a recent 1.4b build.

Comment 3

[Fredrik Aminoff]

I'm still seeing this with:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425

But that build might not have the fix. It is the latest 1.3.1beta available.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I would think that if the fix is in 1.3 Final, it would also be in 1.3.1.

I tried again with 1.3 Final on a slow Win98 machine, started typing as soon as
the window frame rendered, and the text went to the To: field, not to the body.

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Note there is a fix for bug 201996 which might be related to this; that would be 
in 1.4b builds from 0512 onwards.

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 186104 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Fredrik Aminoff, now that 1.4 Final is released, please comment on whether this 
bug still exists for you in that build.

Comment 8

[Fredrik Aminoff]

I am still seeing this bug on 1.4:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

Running windows XP and modern theme on a Thinkpad with 300MHz PII and 228MB ram.

It is harder to reproduce more than one time. If I start mozilla and then press
Ctrl-M I can get the first characters to appear inside the body. Once the first
compose-window is cached it is much more difficult to reproduce. After a restart
of Mozilla I can see the bug again on first Compose-window.

Comment 9

[Mark Ferlatte]

I'm seeing this bug in Mozilla 1.5.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925

Comment 10

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 143669 ***

Comment 11

[Sebastian Späth]

verified