169803 - mail header display pane doesn't allow select; can't copy/paste Subject, for example

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 61497

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Dan Mick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020722
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020722

The blue "header display" pane in the three-pane view of mail/news
apparently doesn't allow text selection; this is true on Solaris and
Win98, so I assume it's a design decision, but I find it annoying
and a negative usability impact; there are many times when I
want/need the text of the headers for lots of different reasons 
(reporting bounce problems, starting a new thread with a slightly
changed subject, copying things for other applications to use, etc.)

I haven't started to look at how hard this would be to fix, but I have
to believe it's just an option on whatever widget draws that pane.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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I call this a bug because 4.x-and-prior didn't have this limitation,
and it seems needless and really bothersome.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

use CTRL+U as workaround and please search before you file a bug report.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61497 ***

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Verified dup.