178505 - The first character entered in the message body during composition seems to get treated as a down arrow, and not as the key that was pressed

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 173818

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Ian Batterbee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

Compose a new message (eg, ctrl-m), optionally enter stuff in to: and subject:
fields (this is not necessary to recreate the bug).

Tab into the body field, and press any printable key (eg, 'a'). The cursor jumps
down one line. Press the same, or any other key again, and it works normally.

Note that 
 - If I turn off the checkbox to use a .sig, then this problem does not occur. 
 - If I give focus to the body field with the mouse cursor, rather than tabbing
into it, this problem does not occur.
 - This did not occur on the 1.1a build, but does now occur on 1.2b (200210612)



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. As above

Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:  
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Comment 1

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 173818 ***

Comment 2

[Ian Batterbee]

Damn.. I did TRY to find a dupe, but was searching for "first character", not
"first char".

Comment 3

[Vedran Miletic]

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