Quick Filter box doesn't take text; interprets it as command
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: fred, Unassigned)
References
Details
(Whiteboard: [add-on: tbkeys-lite])
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0
Steps to reproduce:
I installed 115 over 102. In 115, the Quick Filter button opens the box "Filter these messages <Ctrl+Shift+K> but when I try typing into it, I can't enter what I'm trying to filter. Instead, if I enter "f", it pops open a message in Forward mode, using the message under the cursor in the message list. If I enter "r", it tries to reply. So the text input is not getting to the Quick Filter box at all.
Actual results:
New messages (forwards, replies) popped up. Sometimes, not always, so did the four buttons that normally go with the quick filter. But I can't put text into the box.
Expected results:
I should have been able to type text into the box and specify if it was the sender, subject, body, etc.
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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Maybe alex knows. I haven't heard anything like this before.
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Comment 2•3 years ago
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I can't reproduce this either, and never received any report about it.
Are you sure the focus is moved into the search field and there's a cursor blinking there?
Yes, I'm sure it's in the Quick Filter text field. With the cursor right there on the left side, in front of the letter "F" in filter, typing an "f" opens a message to forward, "r" pops up a message to reply, etc.
There is a chance that this is tied to the fact that I used to use Expression Search, which had at to be rewritten for least three different models of Thunderbird, one I think before v 68, one until fairly recently, and one that worked with 102. Until the latest version, which worked with 102 (but not as reliably), it modified the behavior of the Quick Filter text field, so that typing f: or sub:, for instance, set it to filter on from or subject. (You could use multiple items at once, or a regex too; it is much better than anything built in to T'bird.) The last version simply put up its own button and pop-up, but left Quick Filter alone. I upgraded because both stopped working on this machine, though both still work on another machine I have with T'bird 102.
As a workaround, I'd be VERY happy to go back to 102, if the upgrade hasn't munged the settings or mail files to make that impossible. Or, if there is some clue to find a leftover broken piece of old Expression Search, where would I find it? The trouble with add-ons is that they occur in the background and you never see what files they contain!
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Comment 4•3 years ago
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Do Help > Troubleshoot mode.
If it does not reproduce there, then the problem is likely not Thunderbird.
It does not reproduce in Troubleshoot mode. And that did point to an issue in add-ons, but NOT the one that had been suspect (Expression Search). The problem went away when I turned off tbkeys-lite, which customizes key bindings. That is apparently not compatible with 115 and thus should be disabled as incompatible when 115 is installed! My guess is that 115 treats the Quick Filter field differently from 102 and before, and thus it is now subject to the bindings in tbkeys-lite, rather than being treated as a text input box.
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Comment 6•3 years ago
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Thanks for testing, fred.
This points to the importance of always using troubleshoot mode to check for conflicts.
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