1789623 - Subsequent password input dialogs no longer have focus in TB 102, need to click each input

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[laurenthaas]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:104.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/104.0

Steps to reproduce:

On startup, when you have several accounts that require passwords, the first password dialog has focus, so you can enter it without using your mouse, but the subsequent ones don't have focus. So you need to use your mouse to "activate" the dialog, which is very annoying. IIRC, there was no such a behavior with previous (major) versions

Expected results:

I wish I could enter several accounts passwords "in a row", with no need to active the dialog windows every time.

Comment 1

[laurenthaas]

This issue still remains in version 102.3.1 (Windows)

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Confirming for 102.4.2 (64-bit), Win10 vs. TB 91.13.1 (32-bit).

STR:

• Have some accounts without a saved password (avoid using gmail/OAuth for testing, I used gmx-POP accounts).
• Ensure that "Check for new messages at startup" is checked
• Restart TB
• Enter first account's password (use keyboard only)
• Try to enter second account's password (use keyboard only)

Actual result:

• In TB 102, entering PW for second account is not possible using keyboard only, requires mouse click to focus the PW dialog - all dialogs are loaded and stacked behind each other
• In TB 91, PW dialogs are loaded sequentially (second is only loaded after entering PW for the first), so each dialog has focus and it's easy to enter all passwords for multiple accounts using keyboard only

Expected result:

• TB should automatically focus each PW dialog to make password entry easy and hassle-free for keyboard only

Comment 5

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

I think this should be assigned a Thunderbird frontend component, it's probably a bug in frontend code, not in the actual code executing security functionality.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Lauren, are these imap accounts or pop?

Some possible duplicates in https://mzl.la/3XTBftM

Comment 7

[laurenthaas]

I use 2 different POP accounts.

In addition, when I start TB and wait a while before entering a password, I get several error messages that accumulate. After acknowledging them, another dialog asks me to try again to send the passwords (which have not yet been entered). A real mess.... This is with 115.11.1

Comment 8

[chrizilla]

Comment #7 seems similar to bug 1901546.

Comment 9

[chrizilla]

added based on comment #2:

entering PW for second account is not possible using keyboard only, requires mouse click

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(Asking only because I don't have a better question yet) Is this better or worse when using version 128?

Comment 11

[laurenthaas]

I can't say. I'm using 115.15.0 (esr) and the bugs described remain. I live with them despite the inconvenience.

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

vlad, ramona, can you reproduce comment 2 using a current version?

Comment 13

[Vlad Lucaci, Thunderbird QA (:vlucaci)]

Hello,

Using the STR from comment 2 , I was unable to reproduce this issue on 132.0a1(20240924101405) , 130.0(20240827135927) nor on 128.2.3esr(20240920043836).

However, I am able to confirm that the issue is present in 115.15(20240903191356) , albeit only occurring every once in a while (reproduced it only 2 times out of 10 attempts).
The weird thing is that when attempting to search for a regression range(mozregression-gui) or at the very least trying to reproduce the issue with the affected build from (2022-09-07- 20220907104202), I can no longer reproduce it.

It is also worth mentioning that this only occurred (twice) for a double POP account configuration (IMAP-IMAP or POP-IMAP configurations do not seem to be affected)

Comment 14

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM based on comment 13.
laurenthaas, we can reopen if this reproduces when you get to 128.