222533 - Forwarded message cursor doesn't start in "To" line

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Peter Brown]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925

When forwarding a message, I'd think the first thing to do would be choose
addressee(s), but most of the time, the cursor is somewhere else so I can't just
start typing a name to send it to but must move the cursor back to the top of
the "to" window.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Read a message
2.Forward it
3.Read another message
4. Forward it

Actual Results:  
after 2, mostly works fine (cursor where it should be)
after 4, mostly fails: cursor somewhere else more than 50% of the time

Expected Results:  
Blinking cursor starts always in first line of address ("To")

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Peter Brown, are you using a relatively slow computer?  See bug 166278.

Where are you typically seeing the cursor (caret) show up, when not in To: -- 
in the mail body, or elsewhere?

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 224204 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 230266 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 241410 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I'm confirming this due to the number of dupes, but I haven't seen the problem 
myself.  Note the most recent dupe reports this symptom happening the third or 
fourth or Nth time that mail is forwarded in a session.

Comment 6

[Joe Mehaffey]

The problem is still present in 1.7RC2. To demonstrate the problem is EASY, at
least in Windows 2000 OS.
1) Forward a message.  You will find that the cursor falls in the ADDRESSEE
portion of the email message form.
2) Forward a SECOND message,  you will find that that the cursor DOES NOT move
to the ADDRESSEE line of the email form.  The user must then use his mouse and
click to move the cursor to the addressee line.

Cannot this be given some priority?  It has been on the lest for years(?) I
think and it is highly aggravating to those of us who filter and forward email.
Thanks
Joe Mehaffey 

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #6)
> The problem is still present in 1.7RC2. To demonstrate the problem is EASY, at
> least in Windows 2000 OS.
> 1) Forward a message.  You will find that the cursor falls in the ADDRESSEE
> portion of the email message form.
> 2) Forward a SECOND message,  you will find that that the cursor DOES NOT
> move to the ADDRESSEE line of the email form.  The user must then use his
> mouse and click to move the cursor to the addressee line.

I'm running Windows 2000 but cannot reproduce this problem, following your steps.  A couple questions:

1) Forward Inline or Forward as Attachment?
2) Composing as HTML or composing as plain text?
3) When you get into this no-apparent-focus state, is there any indication of the focus being anywhere else?  If not, what happens when you type <enter>?  What happens when you type <tab> or <shift+Tab>?

These questions are for anyone who's experiencing this bug, not just Joe.

Comment 8

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

There's been a patch checked in at bug 282669 (trunk and branch) that might affect this problem.  Peter and Joe, please read that bug and see if the issues described align with the symptom you see, and dupe this to that (if you think it's the same thing) and/or try a nightly build to see if this problem has been fixed.

Comment 9

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 10

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 11

[buovjaga]

Cannot reproduce. Closing as WFM.

Thunderbird 52.0.1 (32-bit)
Windows 7 64-bit