231366 - header pane centres on randomly expanded newsgroup threads

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 139242

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Doug Main]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 95)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

I want to get new Original poster messages as well as new responses to existing 
threads.  I want to view the newest messages first, then work down to the older 
stuff in threaded format.  I've set up my retrieval views like this:

Views | Messages | Threaded & All
Views | Threads | Threads with unread
Views | Sort by | Order received Descending

When I retrieve messages from a NG, the Header pane centres up on a seemingly 
random thread somwhere in the middle of the messages that download, and some 
threads are expanded; some not.

I can collapse the threads by hitting the \ key and I get get back to the head 
of the downloaded list with Ctrl + Home.  This gives me the set up I want, but 
I shouldn't have to do this manually EVERY BLINKIN' TIME.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[u85353]

I had the same problem with 1.6 final under Linux x86 and it's still there after
upgrading that machine to 1.7a today. It's real annoying. I voted for it.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 139242 ***