232083 - mail and newsgroups preview loses focus on new mail notification

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Ioldanach]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040124
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040124

Browsing through mail or newsgroup messages with the arrow keys lose focus when
new mail arrives.  I have a number of folders within my mail subscribed, as I
use procmail to deliver mailing list messages to their own folders.  As each
folder is checked, the window I'm scrolling through loses focus.  If I bring
focus back to the preview pane and mail checking hits another folder with new
messages, the pane loses focus again.

The focus can either be on the message headers or in the preview pane and it
will be lost.  Reading a message in a separate window does not reproduce the
problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. View a message in MailNews, displaying in the preview pane.
2. Set MailNews to automatically check for new messages.
3. Wait for new mail to arrive.
Actual Results:  
If focus was on the message listing, the arrow keys will stop working for
scrolling to other messages.  If focus was on the preview pane, arrow keys will
no longer move through the message.

Expected Results:  
Focus should have either remained where it was, or been returned to the state it
was in before new mail notification borrowed it.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of bug 66581?

Comment 2

[Ioldanach]

I don't think so.  I found that when I was searching but the symptoms didn't
seem to match.  <a
href=http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66581>66581</a> notes that
hitting the delete key tries to delete the folder, but if you're browsing
message titles and this occurs, hitting the delete key does in fact delete the
message.  Also, focus is only lost within the MailNews browser, not across
applications or windows.

I can't say definitively they aren't related, but the symptoms are different
enough that the differences are either are platform-related or due to different
causes entirely.

Is there a way to note a possible unconfirmed dependency to 66581?

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

I can confirm this bug with Mozilla 1.6 final on Linux.

Everytime Mozilla checks for new mail, focus is lost and given to the Search
toolbar (-> Subject or Sender contains...). Note that no new mails are necessary
to steal the focus, simply looking for new ones is enough.

This is very painful when using arrow keys, as already mentioned by the reporter.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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