218964 - Lose focus in compose window when deleting a recipient

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 215169

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Mike Christie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; T312461; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827

When I delete a second or subsequent address in the compose window, that 
addressing subwindow denies me focus until I click elsewhere and return.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on Compose to bring up a new email window.
2. Type "a@b.c" and hit Enter.  This will bring up another "To:" prompt.
3. Hit the backspace key.

Actual Results:  
Once you do the above, the flashing cursor icon disappears.  Now if you try to 
click on "a@b.c" in order to edit that string, the field will not accept 
focus.  You can successfully pull down the "To:" field and change it; this will 
cause focus to reappear.  You can also recover focus by clicking in the compose 
text window and then back in the addressing window, or by switching to another 
app and then back.  This works almost every time for me, but about one time in 
twenty it does not reproduce; I'm unable to figure out why.

Expected Results:  
When I clicked on the address that field should have received focus and shown 
me a cursor.

This is a usability concern because the keystroke sequence I give is exactly 
what you type if you are correcting a typo you notice after having hit enter.  
Hence it is likely to occur relatively frequently.

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

Looks a bit like bug 217390.

Comment 2

[Mike Christie]

I reproduced this on another machine running XP Pro with the identical build to
the original report.  I also reproduced 217390 on the XP Pro machine and I
agree, the resulting behaviour is very similar.

I don't know if this is relevant in the decision to mark a duplicate, but I feel
that the keystroke sequence I give that causes the bug is likely to be
frequently used and that makes this a little higher priority.

Comment 3

[Felix Miata]

Oliver gets his wish. Backspace key behavior is the key to 215169 being a better
match than 217390.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 215169 ***

Comment 4

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Cleanup *dupeme* whiteboard flag from bugs that are marked as Resolved Duplicate!